Noem: DHS Staff Installed Spyware on Equipment, Found Rooms With Secret Files
“They [Elon Musk and his team] helped me identify that that some of my own employees in my department had downloaded software on my phone and my laptop to spy on me, to record our meetings.”
Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced that Elon Musk helped the department discover spyware on equipment installed by staff.
One employee discovered a secret room with secret files, too.
“They [Elon Musk and his team] helped me identify that some of my own employees in my department had downloaded software on my phone and my laptop to spy on me, to record our meetings,” Noem revealed to Patrick Bet-David on his PBD Podcast.
Performing my role as Secretary of Homeland Security has shown me just how real and dangerous the deep state really is.@elonmusk helped us find that a few DHS staff had installed spying software on the phones and computers of myself and other political hires. We found secret,… pic.twitter.com/ktnM6j7kog
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) February 26, 2026
Then the secret rooms:
I can’t believe what I found, since I’ve been in this department. I just found the other day a whole room in in on this campus that was a secret SCIF [Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility] secure facility that had files nobody knew existed. So we just happened to have an employee walk by a door and wonder what it was, and started asking questions. We went in there, there were individuals working there that had secret files that nobody knew about on some of these most controversial topics like that. And now I’ve got that turned over to attorneys, and we’re getting to the bottom of what exactly happened there.
You know, we have CBP, which is Customs and Border Protection. They know every traveler that comes into this country, every good that comes in. They’re the ones who assess and collect all of the tariffs, but the information that they had on travelers that came in during COVID. What are national labs, which I also have, national labs under my jurisdiction. They’re scientists that participated with that Wuhan lab, how they were traveling back and forth between each other and working on those experiments. It’s been eye opening.
If the government is spying on its own, then you know they’re spying on us.
But the whole process showed Noem just how far behind DHS was with technology, allowing the deep state to infiltrate the department, and now allowing officials to perform their job:
I remember the first four months, I couldn’t even send a PowerPoint over email from the Department of Homeland Security servers that was longer than six pages long. So the backwards thinking of protecting our country was extremely detrimental to keeping us safe and many times the deep state, I think, what I tell people most of the time, is I always believed when people talked about the deep state before that it existed, I never would have dreamed that it was as bad as it is. I’m still, every day trying to dig out people who don’t love America that not just work at this department, but also work throughout the federal government.
Sheesh. I could easily send 15 PowerPoint slides to professors during law school.
Noem has been determined to expose those working behind the scenes to sabotage President Donald Trump’s missions.
Last week, Bloomberg Government reported that Noem ordered polygraphs to target any DHS leaks.
The outlet received descriptions of the memo from two sources:
Noem last week issued an internal directive that all polygraphs the Department of Homeland Security administers must include a question about unauthorized communications with media and nonprofit organizations, according to a memo described to Bloomberg Government by two people without authorization to speak publicly.
Noem cited the “deleterious effects” of leaks on border and interior immigration enforcement and said DHS components that have polygraph programs may use them to assess whether personnel can have initial or continued access to classified information, and whether they’re eligible to hold a sensitive position.
“DHS is a national security agency,” spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in an email to Bloomberg Government. “As such, it should and will polygraph personnel.”
Of course, The Daily Beast mocked Noem for using polygraphs. The outlet correctly pointed out that polygraphs are iffy to the point that lawyers or law enforcement usually cannot use them in court. There are a few exceptions.
However, The Daily Beast left out the fact that stats show polygraphs have an accuracy rate between 70% and 90%.
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The swamp has deep roots. Remember the dishonest weasels in the first Trump administration doing everything they could to stick a spike in his ability to run the Executive branch, and how they were rewarded in the following Biden admin. Now, they’re faced with the option of burrowing in deeper while selling as much damaging information or rumors to their outside-the-agency contacts, or cashing in for an outside job if they think they’re going to get caught. Their problem is the government-funded ‘nonprofits’ they would normally flock to have been unfunded to a large degree, leaving them high and dry. Too bad. Weasels gotta weasel.
I am shocked! No, not really.
The CIA—they are the most corrupt part of the government.
And that says a lot!
The question is, just what can Noem do and how far can she go in doing it? Civil Service rules are so strict that it’s surprising that she could fire anybody, let alone prosecute them. She needs to get started soon.
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What about transferring them? I’m sure there are DHS facilities in undesirable locations or if not, create some.
If nothing else assign them to a windowless room and require them to sit there their entire shift. Nust sit there with no phones, books or anything. Let boredom be their eternal punishment.
Send them all to Alaska.
Stick them as far away from civilization as you can.
Antarctica doing a penguin census.
I have always said that North Shore Alaska would make a wonderful listening and analysis post, and with the weather it will make a great location for a reserve data center. Just think how beneficial it would be to put the data entry people right up there with the servers.
Wait! I thought “No One is above the law, including the president!”
If that’s the case, then all government employees are not above the law.
Wink! Wink!
But you and I know that there are (D)ifferent people who get a free pass.
There is a way around any Civil Service rules that might prevent employees from being terminated. Simply relocate said employees to rooms or buildings where they would be incapable of causing harm. Give them no communications equipment, no access to information, no interaction with others in the government.
Why that would seem financially wasteful, it would allow the Trump administration to do the work it is endeavoring to do, without the interference of these Leftists.
Another option would be to terminate them, Civil Service rules be damned. No one working for the citizens should be guaranteed lifetime employment.
Strip them of their security clearances. That is completely justified, and prevents them from any job requiring a security clearance, and talking to anyone who does about anything that might require such a clearance. And prevents them from getting a job at another agency or business requiring security clearances.
The entire Civil Service act, and subsequent acts, have been a complete failure. Originally, this act was suppose to create a ‘professional’ bureaucracy independent of politics. As we’ve seen, the bureaucracy inevitably gets involved in politics to protect itself. I’d like to see the entire act replaced with three simple rules:
1) All employees under the executive branch serve at the pleasure of the Chief Executive, or as assigned by the Chief Executive;
2) All employees under the executive branch are employed under temporary contracts of up to four years. Contracts may be extended for up to four years, but no contract shall be written to require extension.
3) All temporary contracts for employees under the executive branch terminate on the second Tuesday in July six months after a Presidential election.
Basically, the bureaucrats are employees, just like any of us in private industry, and can be replaced when a new boss comes in, or whenever the boss feels like it. This would eliminate the ‘deep state’, and most of the bloated bureaucracy as well.
this act was suppose to create a ‘professional’ bureaucracy independent of politics
Come to find out, that was exactly the problem, of course.
Transfer these people to northern Alaska if they can’t be fired.
And even if they can be fired transfer most, if not all, the administrative branch civil service out of Washington D.C. to the various states so that they no longer enjoy the privilege of being at the center of power.
Why so close? How about having them set up shop in Afghanistan?
Meh, counting snowflakes in the Arctic circle seems pretty bad. Obviously it would be remote duty ‘in the field’ to observe weather so they’d need to have a tent/shelter and be transported to their assigned location. Too bad they keep disappearing without a trace, clearly deserting their post, which opens a spot for someone else.
What I would like to kn0w is who the spying tracks back to. Who gets the information. Who placed the spying or recruited employees in DHS and who they report back to., Are they in the government or outside of it.
I don’t know how accurate polygraphs except that they are used. I do know the Daily Beast is a piece of crap as is all who work there and most who read it.
You would be surprised to know that there are government employees from different agencies that are assigned to another agency. DoD assigned Vindman to the “Intelligence” community, where he quickly aligned himself self with the protection and advancement of the deep state and not to the president.
“Vindman” is Ukranian for “vermin,” isn’t it?
This is the all too predictable outcome of a leviathan government that has slipped its constitutional leash.
We can and should prosecute anyone with these agencies that violate the law (as if it would ever actually happen…) but more importantly we need to continue downsizing. If you have time on your schedule to spy on your boss then you are redundant and should be sacked.
My own personal opinion is that 75% of the federal government could disappear and no taxpayer would notice the difference.
It is as if somebody read my comments from yesterday so as to prove them today!
Where do you put a spying operation? Inside a SCIF inside a secured Federal building. By definition, nobody can talk about what happens in the SCIF, and nobody can remove anything from the SCIF. There is no discovery! Could there be a better place to spy on people?
And the hardware that is inside the SCIF … well that is all classified. Likely a FISA warrant is required to even understand what it does, when it does whatever, where the results go, and who ordered it, and who operated it. Sounds like a 3-year delay right there… Due to compartmentalization rules, every ruling will be held secret from every other ruling, even if all of the rulings are for the same people in the same room at the same time using the same hardware.
This sort of operation draws psychopaths like BS draws flies. And they all get pensions for life.
For the short term, transfer everybody even remotely involved to a Quonset hut on Kodiak Island. The bears need to be counted twice a day.
Successful parasites don’t kill the host.
A lesson the Demsocialists failed to learn.
The larger question is which other cabinet members are under such surveillance?
“I just found the other day a whole room in in on this campus that was a secret SCIF [Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility] secure facility that had files nobody knew existed.”
“Kristi Drew And The Secret SCIF”
Maybe she should have spent more time learning her job. No SCIF should be secret from the DHS Chief, although they should have their own keypad. Sounds like a CIA or NSA operation. Looks like someone didn’t get a very good briefing when she took over.
This x 1000,
I worked in intelligence for close to 40 years, military and civilian. We all knew right from the start that our phone calls were subject to monitoring and when email came on line, they were also subject to monitoring, Everyone up to the big boss of the department.
I hope someone in her staff is educating her about all this, so she doesn’t continue to embarrass herself.
It is time for a special prosecutor.
A special prosecutor might help. But apply Godel’s second law of incompleteness to this issue. A special prosecutor operating under the rules can never be sure to find and correct the problem. In fact this whole system of non-discoverability was built within the ruleset to hide its own illegality.
Need to *solve* this class of problems? Then a different rule set is needed. Something like a wood chipper in the parking lot punishing the guilty is needed. The trials can be done right at the DHS building, but punishment needs to be quick, harsh and public.
with lefty in charge and that black matriarchy wielding its unnatural powers
we either act like its a war and react properly
or as we see with once again blmplo street thuggs applauded for their attacks on leo ,, and let loose
cower like the population did in 1930s germany and face thattt consequence (s)
9 11 attackers got mamdami elected
think about it
Pretty sure the 19 9/11 attackers comprised of 15 Saudis, 2 guys from UAE, one Egyptian and one Lebanese dude didn’t swing the vote in NYC.
It has been about 30 years since I worked in this area, but at least then, a polygraph exam was required to get a Top Secret clearance, and the government required subsequent polygraph exams, whenever they wanted and at least every 5 years.
Personally I think polygraph exams are not particularly helpful, but they do yield potentially valuable data–they are not admissable in court because it isn’t entirely clear how valuable (or accurate) the data they yield is.
Seems like treason to me.
Treason means
1. Waging war on the USA
2. Adhering to the USA’s enemies.
These people seem to be doing neither.
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