 The buck stops with me. I am the director of the Secret Service, and I need to make sure that we are performing a review and that we are giving resources to our personnel as necessary. Some have questioned how Crooks was able to carry out his attack in a seemingly secure area. ABC News has learned heavily armed police were stationed inside the building, which was being used as a law enforcement staging area, but they did not see Crooks climbing up the outside of the building.