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.
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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