Homeland Security says Shaheen pressured Biden’s TSA to remove her husband from a terror-related watchlist — despite alarming travel ties….
The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday accused Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a New Hampshire Democrat, of leveraging her political power to remove her husband from a federal air travel watchlist during the Biden administration.
According to DHS, Shaheen secretly lobbied then-TSA Administrator David Pekoske to take her husband, William Shaheen, off the agency’s “Quiet Skies” list — a program designed to flag individuals with potential links to terrorism suspects.
As The Washington Times reports:
Mr. Pekoske, who was ousted by the Trump administration in January, granted the senator’s request and ordered that Mr. Shaheen not be listed in Quiet Skies, the department said. He’d originally been added after he was spotted traveling with people deemed to be known or suspected terrorists.
Secretary Kristi Noem said Mr. Shaheen’s delisting was all the more egregious because at the same time he was being pulled off the list, Tulsi Gabbard, who at the time was a former Democratic congresswoman and vocal supporter of Donald Trump, was listed.
“It is clear that this program was used as a political rolodex of the Biden administration — weaponized against its political foes and to benefit their well-heeled friends,” Ms. Noem said. “This program should have been about the equal application of security, instead it was corrupted to be about political targeting.”
Mr. Shaheen’s blanket exclusion from the list has been revoked, she said.
Homeland Security claimed other VIPs received special treatment, including celebrity athletes, journalists, and foreign dignitaries.
The department’s use of the word “corruption” in its statement marks an unusually blunt rebuke of a sitting U.S. senator, signaling the gravity of the alleged abuse.
“For far too long, this program has yielded little to no measurable security impact and lay at the expense of the American traveler,” it concluded.
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Recall her and charge her with supporting a known terrorist. Democrats are are a greater threat to America than China! No one is above the law as the democrats kept chanting in their attacks on Trump.
I think a bigger story would be “Senator’s husband has ties to terroists”.