TSA revealed that the Biden Administration targeted some individuals who resisted the mask mandate or were involved with the events of Jan 6, 2021, by putting them on severe TSA watchlists. (Shelby Tauber/Bloomberg / Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
"Biden’s TSA wildly abused their authority, targeting Americans who posed no aviation security risk under the banner of political differences," Noem added. "President Trump promised to end the weaponization of government against the American people, and we are making good on that promise."
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Secretary Kristi Noem and the Department of Homeland Security oversee TSA. (Getty Images/Alex Brandon)
protests on Jan 6, 2021, on watchlists, including five on a no-fly list.
Biden’s TSA ignored internal concerns raised by career intelligence officials and TSA’s Chief Privacy Officer that placing individuals on the list "is clearly unrelated to transportation security," and that "TSA is punishing people for the expression of their ideas when they haven’t been charged, let alone convicted of incitement or sedition," according to emails from a top privacy official at TSA dated Jan. 13, 2021 obtained by Fox News Digital.
Another TSA intelligence employee also expressed worry over watchlisting individuals allegedly involved in the Capitol protest, saying most individuals who were arrested "are technically curfew breakers," and that "I hope we don’t end up adding them [to a watchlist] on just the arrest," according to an internal email obtained by Fox.
One individual, a national guardsman deployed to the Capitol for Biden's inauguration on Jan 20, 2021 and was not present at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 was added to a no-fly list because of bad intelligence from Biden’s FBI.
Another individual, the wife of a federal air marshal who was also not present at the Capitol on Jan. 6, was added to a watchlist due to additional bad intelligence from the Biden FBI.
Americans allegedly involved with the events of Jan. 6, 2021 who were not tied to unrelated, individual incidents, were removed from various watchlists on June, 28, 2021.
A majority of Americans allegedly involved with the events of Jan 6, 2021, who were placed on watchlists were removed from them on June 28, 2021, though some who had been charged remained watchlisted until they were cleared.
Sources at TSA say the Biden administration's targeting of Americans is the most expansive use of putting U.S. citizens on a no-fly list in history.
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