DHS Ends TSA Program “Quiet Skies,” Citing Its Political Weaponization Under the Biden Administration

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Citing political weaponization during the Biden administration and the program's inability to stop terrorism, the Department of Homeland Security has ended the contentious "Quiet Skies" initiative.

The program is a "political Rolodex" that targets Biden's enemies and helps allies, according to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. Quiet Skies had a list of exempted people, such as foreign royals, political elites, and preferred media, in addition to a watchlist. DHS says the initiative failed to stop terror attacks and will be replaced with safety- and equity-first strategies.

The Department of Homeland Security stated this week that it is discontinuing the Transportation Security Administration's "Quiet Skies" program, a covert security endeavor first introduced in 2010. The decision follows internal assessments indicating that the program had become a politically charged tool during the Biden administration, along with increasing bipartisan scrutiny.

Without informing them or offering them any remedy, the program subjected some tourists, including nationals of the United States, to extra surveillance and screening procedures. DHS claims that the program grew to an annual cost of $200 million without preventing any terrorist attacks.

Kristi Noem, the secretary of DHS, was candid in her evaluation. "It is obvious that the Biden Administration used the Quiet Skies program as a political Rolodex, weaponizing it against its political opponents and using it to their advantage to enrich their wealthy friends," she said. "To uncover additional corruption at the expense of the American people and the undermining of U.S. national security, I am calling for a congressional investigation."

The most unsettling revelation made by DHS may have been the program's separate list of exemptions that protected well-known people from the same security regulations that applied to regular Americans. According to reports, those who were granted a pass included favored members of the media, foreign royal families, political leaders, and professional athletes.

Civil liberties organizations also criticized the initiative. The ACLU accused the TSA of conducting a covert surveillance operation back in 2018. According to Hugh Handeyside, a senior attorney with the ACLU's National Security Project, "the TSA has kept almost everything about the program secret, even though its existence is now public." He claimed that the TSA targeted those who had done nothing wrong by using "unreliable and unscientific techniques" like behavior detection.

DHS added to the issue by referencing a 2023 case in which William Shaheen, the husband of Democrat Senator Jeanne Shaheen, was discreetly taken off the radar after getting in touch with a TSA officer from the Biden administration. He had flown three times with a known or suspected terrorist, according to DHS. The senator's office said it was only informed after her husband was screened and that it didn't know of any such lists.

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