Division of Homeland Safety Chief Kristi Noem on Thursday introduced she is ending the Obama-era TSA “Quiet Skies” program which has didn’t cease a single terrorist assault.
Quiet Skies is a program by the TSA that makes use of air marshals to trace and observe suspicious passengers. This system’s aim is to determine vacationers who might pose a threat to aviation safety, briefly, a terrorist.
Air marshals observe passengers’ habits in airports and on flights. They take notes and ship detailed studies to the TSA. This system is an enlargement of a observe the place air marshals surveil topics of open FBI terrorism investigations.
Extraordinary Americans on the Quiet Skies record discover it practically inconceivable to take away themselves from TSA’s enhanced screening listing.
Somewhat than going after precise terrorists, the Quiet Skies program was weaponized in opposition to political enemies and J6 defendants.
Noem stated she is ending Quiet Skies and launching an investigation into Biden’s weaponization of this system.
“At present, I’m asserting TSA is ending the Quiet Skies Program, which since its existence has didn’t cease a SINGLE terrorist assault whereas costing US taxpayers roughly $200 million a yr,” Noem stated.
“DHS and TSA have uncovered paperwork, correspondence, and timelines that clearly spotlight the inconsistent software of Quiet Skies. This system, below the guise of “nationwide safety,” was used to focus on political opponents and profit political allies of the Biden Administration,” she stated.
“Along with conducting our personal inner investigation, I’m calling for a full and thorough Congressional investigation to uncover additional corruption via this program,” Noem added.
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At present, I’m asserting TSA is ending the Quiet Skies Program, which since its existence has didn’t cease a SINGLE terrorist assault whereas costing US taxpayers roughly $200 million a yr.
DHS and TSA have uncovered paperwork, correspondence, and timelines that clearly… pic.twitter.com/mcdNplUuVV
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) June 5, 2025
This week it was reported that Democrat Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s husband, William Shaheen, was placed on the US Authorities’s ‘Quiet Skies’ screening record in 2023 after he traveled with an unidentified Arab-American lawyer who was on the FBI’s terrorism watchlist.
Nevertheless, Senator Shaheen quietly contacted then-TSA Administrator David Pekoske to have her Lebanese husband faraway from the improved screening record.
Two days later, William Shaheen was given preferential remedy and was placed on the “safe flight exclusion record” by the TSA.
