5 TSA officials sacked.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/homeland-security-removes-5-tsa-officials-over-biden-era-watchlist-5923368
The department said that the dismissed officials had “systematically watchlisted and denied boarding to those who exercised their individual rights and resisted mask mandates on airplanes nearly six months after the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] relaxed its indoor mask mandate.”
Homeland Security added that the TSA had used the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol protests “as an excuse to target several dozen U.S. citizens.”
“These Americans were watchlisted and harassed despite there being no evidence of wrongdoing or illegal behavior,” the department said.
Tulsi Gabbard angle.
The Quiet Skies program, abolished on June 5 [2025 by Trump], was established by the DHS in 2012 under the Obama administration to ensure that higher-risk passengers are more thoroughly searched before they board commercial aircraft.
Once a passenger was identified and put on the list, he or she would be subjected to more invasive security screening by TSA officers at airports....an earlier internal investigation that found the TSA had conducted surveillance on former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard—the current director of national intelligence (DNI)—under the Quiet Skies program.
Gabbard said...Quiet Skies program “has been used for nearly two decades to target and surveil everyday Americans, violating our constitutional rights and civil liberties, targeting political opponents, and costing taxpayers approximately $200 million per year, all while failing to stop a single terrorist.”
