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Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has been assigned security due to ongoing threats, including face-to-face confrontations and threats posted online, a law enforcement source told CNN.

Several other Secret Service agents have received threats following the near assassination of former President Donald Trump last month in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to another source familiar with the matter. While those threats are being monitored, it is unclear what other security measures have been put in place.

It’s not often that former or even current Secret Service directors are given their own protective details, but in Cheatle’s case, the move came after she and the agency faced intense criticism for security lapses on the day of Trump’s assassination.

The secret service declined to comment.

Cheatle abruptly resigned from the agency last month after receiving harsh criticism from lawmakers during a public congressional hearing in which the director refused to answer many of the committee’s questions.

After the shooting, right-wing media and some Republicans criticized several female agents who were protecting Trump that day, arguing that they could not protect the former president because they were too small. These and other attacks against the agents were widely shared online.