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House Oversight Chairman Comer investigates alleged political abuse of TSA's Quiet Skies program, requesting DHS documents ...
Quiet Skies was a $200 million-a-year ghost hunt that swapped due process for paranoia and turned air marshals into glorified skybound voyeurs with clipboards. advertisement. SOFREP.
The Department of Homeland Security is ending the $200 million Quiet Skies program, citing political weaponization concerns.
Quiet Skies was launched during the Obama administration as a counterterrorism program. REUTERS. In contrast, “non-politically aligned members,” including former Democratic Hawaii ...
The Quiet Skies program has documented shortcomings. In 2020, the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security released a report concluding that it lacked sufficient oversight, ...
Quiet Skies was revealed in 2018 by The Boston Globe, which said the program deployed air marshals, who fly armed and undercover to thwart terrorists, to track dozens of suspicious travelers daily.
Shortly after New Hampshire Democrat Jeanne Shaheen spoke with the Transportation Security Administration about her husband, William Shaheen, TSA officials removed him from a list of people subjected ...