The horrors of Biden’s administration continue to be exposed. He will easily go down as one of the worst presidents of all time.
And former President Biden has been accused of targeting these Americans in a disturbing way.
Under the Biden regime, everyday Americans who dared to push back against draconian COVID-19 mask rules found themselves slapped onto no-fly lists—tools typically reserved for hunting down suspected terrorists. This shocking revelation comes straight from an internal Department of Homeland Security probe, details of which were scooped up by the New York Post.
The DHS investigation uncovered how 19 ordinary citizens got flagged for Transportation Security Administration watchlists in a short window from September 30, 2021, to October 25, 2021. Over half of these folks ended up with the harshest no-fly status, effectively grounding them from domestic flights like common criminals.
These punitive measures didn’t just vanish overnight. At least 11 of those targeted Americans remained trapped on the lists until April 2022, only getting relief when a federal judge finally struck down the Biden mask mandate that started it all.
Now, with a new sheriff in town, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem isn’t ignoring the mess left behind. She blasted the previous administration’s antics, declaring that “Biden’s TSA wildly abused their authority” in the so-called Operation Freedom to Breathe.
Noem didn’t stop at tough talk. In her statement, she hammered home the point: “Biden’s TSA Administrator [David] Pekoske and his cronies abused their authority and weaponized the federal government against the very people they were charged with protecting.”
Looking ahead, Noem tied the cleanup to bigger commitments, saying, “President Trump promised to end the weaponization of government against the American people, and we are making good on that promise.”
Taking swift action, Noem axed five top officials tied to this overreach and shipped off key details to the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, plus lawmakers on Capitol Hill, demanding deeper scrutiny.
Meanwhile, Sen. Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican leading the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, dropped his own report exposing even more victims. He revealed at least 24 Americans got tossed onto TSA watchlists simply for linking up with the Freedom to Breathe Agency, a group fighting back against mask tyranny.
But the abuses didn’t end with mask rebels. The DHS dive also exposed how around 280 Americans involved in the January 6, 2021, Capitol protests got jammed onto these watchlists.
Out of that group, five adults scored the dreaded no-fly tag—despite pushback from the TSA’s own chief privacy officer.
In a January 13, 2021, email gathered by the New York Post, that officer warned: Putting Americans on the list “is clearly unrelated to transportation security.” He added, “TSA is punishing people for the expression of their ideas when they haven’t been charged, let alone convicted of incitement or sedition.”
The very next day after the Capitol events, another TSA intel staffer raised red flags about labeling folks as threats just for busting curfew rules in the chaos.
As that employee put it in writing: “That doesn’t mean they were not part of the breach of the capitol [sic].”
“But until we can prove otherwise … I hope we don’t end up adding them based on just the arrest.”
Adding insult to injury, internal emails showed Biden’s TSA leaning too heavily on a database from George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, bypassing solid FBI leads in their rush to flag people.
Even when the FBI got involved, they fumbled badly—wrongly placing a National Guardsman and the wife of a federal air marshal on no-fly lists thanks to faulty intel, proving how sloppy and dangerous this whole operation became.
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