White House names Randolph Ailes as new Director of Secret Service

The White House has named a retired Marine major general Randolph Ailes as the new Director of the Secret Service. Ailes will oversee an agency that for years has been beset with a series of high-profile embarrassments. 

Ailes, who was in the



Marine Corps for 35 years, has been the acting deputy commissioner of Customs and Border Protection and previously oversaw the agency's air and marine division. Ailes is replacing Joseph Clancy, who retired from the agency a second time in March.