Secret Service Comes Under Fire From House Oversight Panel

The Secret Service came under renewed criticism on Tuesday, when a lawmaker alleged a woman was able to drop an object she claimed was a bomb just outside the White House earlier this month, then avoid capture for three days.

That object, which turned out to be harmless, was under investigation when two senior agents drove onto the scene on the evening of March 4 and nudged aside a barricade with their car. An anonymous email sent later to Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy alleged that the agents were “extremely...