"What I saw made me ashamed," Rowe told a joint hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Judiciary Committees. "As a career law enforcement officer, and a 25-year veteran with the Secret Service, I cannot defend why that roof was not better secured." But Rowe went on to tell lawmakers that the Secret Service erred by assuming that a local officials would cover the building and its roof, not the Secret Service. "Isn't that something that Secret Service should have covered, as opposed to delegating it to local law enforcement?" Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal asked Rowe: "Ultimately, doesn't the buck stop with the Secret Service?"
