United States Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy has resigned.

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“The success of the Secret Service is achieved with great sacrifice by all of you and your families,” Clancy wrote in a letter to Secret Service staffmembers. “Please accept my sincere and heartfelt thanks for your dedication to our mission. You have inspired me. My hope was that I could return your gifts of inspiration with some measure of good for the Secret Service.”

House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz also addressed Clancy’s resignation in a Tuesday statement.

Joseph Clancy (Getty Images)

(CNN)United States Secret Service director Joseph Clancy announced his retirement to the staff Tuesday, a spokesperson tells CNN.

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