Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has announced the end of an Obama-era program that involved spying on U.S. citizens — and cost those citizens hundreds of millions in tax dollars a year.
“Today I’m announcing that TSA is ending the Quiet Skies program, which involved having a federal agent follow U.S. citizens as they traveled by air. It was created by Obama in 2012 to supposedly track dangerous individuals, but instead it was weaponized against political enemies such as Tulsi Gabbard,” Noem said in a video posted to social media.
“Since its existence, it has failed to stop a single terrorist attack, while it cost U.S. taxpayers roughly about $200 million a year,” she added.
Independent journalist Breanna Morello has been on the frontlines of breaking this story and has uncovered just how American citizens would end up on these lists.
“What they used is a program called Evade, which was another Obama program that was started. And what they did is they used Evade to add people to the TSA terror watch list,” Morello tells BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”
“Evade was a private-sector company that was going out there looking at your social media posts,” Morello continues. “The reality of it is everyone I found who’s on these lists are all conservative.”
“So they intentionally went above and beyond to target people. Now, Tulsi Gabbard, the following day after she criticized Kamala Harris, was added to that terror watch list,” she adds.
Morello also explains that hundreds of Americans, including those who attended the January 6 rally, were added to the same watch list.
“For years, they were followed by air marshals, they were stalked by TSA, they went through additional groping that they didn’t have to go through,” she tells Gonzales. “But again, the TSA is not an investigative agency.”
This is why the TSA hired a private-sector company to do the work for them.
“So, chances are if you ever had a little four S’s on the bottom of your boarding pass and then you went through additional screening processes after already going through TSA, you were probably on the list, and you’re probably being followed by air marshals without knowing it,” Morello explains.
“So they’re just intentionally finding a loophole and subverting it,” Gonzales comments.
“And that loophole is a private-sector company, yes,” Morello responds.
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The Democratic Party is once again in shambles, and even its own members are starting to speak out.
The Democratic Party has remained in free fall ever since President Donald Trump's sweeping victory, and its members have not yet regained their footing. Most recently, the Democratic National Committee has taken on new leadership in an attempt to salvage the party, but even its staff said the organization is in disarray.
In just four and a half months, DNC Chair Ken Martin has apparently run the party into the ground. Multiple reports quote party officials criticizing Martin's handling of the DNC's finances, calling him "weak and whiny" and describing his tenure as "disappointing."
'We’re in the most serious existential crisis.'
Rahm Emanuel, who served as chief of staff for former President Barack Obama, expressed frustration about the Democratic Party's incompetence in the aftermath of Trump's election.
"We’re in the most serious existential crisis with Donald Trump both at home and abroad — and with the biggest political opportunity in a decade," Emanuel said. "And the DNC has spent six months on a firing squad in the circle and can’t even fire a shot out. And Trump’s world is a target-rich environment."
The DNC has been plagued by disorder for months now, with much of the infighting focused on leadership. Gun control activist David Hogg briefly served as a vice chair of the DNC before he was unceremoniously ousted following a lot of internal drama.
"This is worse than some high school student council drama," Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin told the New York Times.
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The DNC's crippling financial state may also have caused much of the infighting, with the organization's funds reportedly shrinking by $4 million from January to April. During the same period, the Republican National Committee's funds increased by about $29 million.
Multiple sources told the New York Times that donors have been more stingy with Martin at the helm, which has further strained relations within the DNC. Despite this chaos, Martin remains confident in his leadership and the future of the party.
"People invested more money than they ever had before, they dug deeper than they ever had, and they are quite frustrated by the result," Mr. Martin said. “They want answers. I don’t take it personally. I wasn’t in charge.”
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As President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security works to clean up the illegal immigration crisis caused by the former Biden administration, a leaked internal memo from the department named several "open borders politicians" who allegedly defended "illegal alien rapists, murders, [and] pedophiles."
The unclassified memo accused progressive politicians of prioritizing illegal immigrant criminals and violent rioters over law enforcement and their American citizen constituents, citing the recent destructive and violent protests in Los Angeles, California, last week.
'ICE, get the f**k out of LA so that order can be restored.'
"Since June 6, thousands of violent rioters protesting [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] operations in Los Angeles have assaulted law enforcement officers with concrete chunks and Molotov cocktails, attacked federal buildings, burned cars, and destroyed other public and private property throughout the city," the leaked memo read. "Still, open borders politicians have consistently defended, excused and denied the violence."
The DHS accused the leftist politicians of attempting to blame the lawless protests on ICE.
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"Leftists slander law enforcement, lie about Trump policies, and praise illegal aliens," the memo continued.
The department's internal document listed several Democratic politicians: former Vice President Kamala Harris, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, and Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Maxine Waters of California. Additionally, it referred to Rep. Norma Torres of California but mistakenly listed her as "Yvette Torres."
The DHS included quotes from each of the individuals to support its claims that the politicians "put Americans last" by defending illegal alien criminals.
It quoted Harris stating, "Demonstrations in defense of our immigrant neighbors have been overwhelmingly peaceful."
The memo noted that Newsom, during his June 10th address to California, said, "[Trump's] administration is pushing mass deportations, indiscriminately targeting hardworking immigrant families, regardless of their roots or risk. What's happening right now is very different than anything we've seen before."
A comment attributed to Bass read, "Stop the raids. There is a real fear in Los Angeles right now. Parents, workers, grandparents, young people scared to go about their daily lives. We are a city of immigrants. Washington is attacking our people, our neighborhoods, and our economy."
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The DHS quoted Sen. Murphy stating, "This is a moment where we have to be on the streets all over the country. ... [President Trump is] trying to turn a protest that is pretty small into something that involves an even bigger confrontation."
It included a comment from Ocasio-Cortez that read, "It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock, rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence."
"ICE, get the f**k out of L.A. so that order can be restored," Torres was cited as saying.
Waters was quoted as stating, "Don't think that somehow, because they called out the National Guard, there was violence. There was no violence."
DHS noted that ICE arrested "murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and other heinous scumbags" during the Los Angeles operation.
The department stated that the leftist politicians have continued to "stand firmly with foreign nationals invading America and causing mayhem" and therefore "do not care about the American people's safety or law enforcement."
The DHS added that the politicians' policies would "never put America first" and that they are "squarely on the side of criminal illegal aliens."
"The Trump Administration will always put the American people first and defend law enforcement working to keep America safe," the department concluded.
Representatives for Harris, Newsom, Ocasio-Cortez, Bass, Torres, Waters, and Murphy did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.
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June 27 really needs to be a national holiday wherein we collectively observe the bottomless depravity of the dying news media. We could call it something like “Biden Debate Day.” The date is significant because it was the start of a 131-day journey that showed just how far the media were willing to go to […]
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