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Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has been assigned a security detail amid ongoing threats, including in-person confrontations and threats posted online, a law enforcement source told CNN.

Several other Secret Service agents have received threats after the last month's near-assassination of former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, according to another source familiar with the matter. While these threats are monitored, it is unclear what other security measures have been taken.

It's rare for former or even current Secret Service directors to receive their own protective details, but the step was made for Cheatle after she and the agency came under fire for security lapses on of the Trump shooting.

The Secret Service declined to comment.

Cheatle abruptly resigned from the agency last month after intense criticism from lawmakers during a public hearing in Congress where the director refused to answer many of the committee's questions.

In the wake of the shooting, right-wing media and some Republicans criticized several female officers who protected Trump that day, claiming they couldn't protect the former president because they were too young. These and other attacks on officers were perpetuated online.