Rand Paul: Look How Far the Biden Admin Was Willing to Go to Surveil Tulsi Gabbard
The senator said "federal air marshals surveilled the now-director of national intelligence during domestic flights in 2024." #28
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We already knew that the Biden administration put Tulsi Gabbard on a watch list and spied on her. We just didn’t know how far that went.
Sen. Rand Paul said this week he finally received the records that confirmed that federal air marshals surveilled Gabbard during domestic flights last year.
The senator said the now Director of National Intelligence was so scrutinized that her watchers were "reporting back information related to her appearance and even how many electronics she was observed using."
Paul made his remarks on Capitol Hill Tuesday as part of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Krisi Noem’s testimony about her department’s budget request for next year.
‘These Documents Confirm Our Suspicions’
Paul told Noem, "I commend you and the Trump administration for ending all government-sponsored censorship using DHS personnel. Just last night, I received the first set of records from the department regarding Tulsi Gabbard’s placement on the TSA Quiet Skies watch list.”
"These documents confirm our suspicions,” the senator declared. “Federal air marshals surveilled the now-director of national intelligence during domestic flights in 2024, reporting back information related to her appearance and even how many electronics she was observed using.”
“Unfortunately, this is not an isolated case,” Paul added.
Gabbard herself has attested to the lengths people would go to keep tabs on her.
The former congresswoman told Fox News in November, "As I was traveling, I ended up in 30 to 45 minutes of going through screening every time I would go to the airport to fly.”
“I noticed air marshals, I noticed K-9 teams. There were things that I saw and noticed that were highly unusual,” she added.
The experience shook Gabbard up.
"But the deepest pain and harm and stress that’s been caused by this is that, forever going forward, I will always be looking over my shoulder, wondering if and how my government is surveilling me," she said.
This was coming from a veteran who was deployed to Iraq in 2004.
The watch list is a product of the the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Federal air marshals can follow U.S. citizens and collect information to stop potential terrorist threats.
So the Biden administration was treating a U.S. military veteran, former congresswoman and current DNI head as a terrorist?
Essentially, yes.
X user Sonya Labosco who describes herself as a retired air marshal looked at it as an abuse of power.
No surprise that Director Gabbard wants to end the watch list.
Gabbard: ‘I Think They Were Trying to Intimidate Me’
Gabbard believes she was placed on the list after a July 22 interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham.
She questioned then-Vice President Kamala Harris’ abilities to lead that night, after Biden dropped out of the presidential race and immediately endorsed Harris.
Gabbard told Ingraham on Tuesday, “I think they were trying to intimidate me, but also, they were trying to really create this chilling effect, probably knowing that I wouldn't stay silent about it and send a message out to people that if you go and criticize then-Vice President Kamala Harris, who is now going to be the Democratic nominee for president, you too, would face the consequences.”
The federal government cannot harass citizens for their speech, but it sounds like that’s exactly what the Biden administration was doing to Gabbard.
Sen. Paul wanted to know who else might be on the list and for WHAT, exactly?
Paul posted on X Thursday, “I’m determined to get to the bottom of what happened. If they’re putting former members of Congress on terror watch lists, who knows what they’re doing to the average American?”
Exactly.
Remember when Democrats were warning that electing Donald Trump again would undermine democratic standard and norms?
It turns out the Biden-Harris White House were glad to wreck those norms and standards if it served them. Clear abuses of power.
Rand Paul vows to find more.
There are dozens of people who helped implement this surveillance. Why are the not identified? Also, since they violated their Oath of Office, they should be terminated and Tulsi should have the opportunity to sue them - in particular the management types - individually for violating her Civil Rights. Even if she only sues for $1 and a public written apology it will send a message. The taxpayers should not be on the hook for this as well. These people must be sued in their individual capacity without the benefit of sovereign immunity because they violated their oath of office.
Sure sounds like it.
Sen. Rand, why didn't SS Seniors get a Tax cut as promised? There are just two of us who will be 77/84 in July and August; our wages were low. My SS is below average. My USN from 1958-78, my 20-year career SCPO, doesn't have a big pension, nor does the Teachers' 20-year Pension amount to much. As you are aware, Spouses' Tricare Life coverage is not the same as the service member's.
My twin Hearing Aids for Menieres, hearing loss, are very strong, and were $5,800 OOP. This is my second attack; I'm nearly deaf. Our glasses are OOP. As is my dental. Despite the Peripheral Neuropathy, holes in his vision, and severe Glaucoma requiring visits every six months, he was shoving Hueys off the flight deck of the USS MIDWAY when they brought the AMB out of Vietnam. Hueys taken from Agent Orange-sprayed fields. He's going blind. A car accident while on active duty smashed into his facial area, breaking his jaw and knocking many teeth out. Spouse technically serve too. Campaign promise broken. Was it to fund AG Sec. Rollins' big Ag spending, when the issue lies with her not Fixing the Fraud from Cal-Maine and other egg and game hens DYING IN BATTERY CAGES, AND BEING CLAIMED AS BIRD FLU, OR THE STRANGLE HOLD OF HENDRICKS/COBBS ON GENETICS, SO NO OTHER BREADING CAN BE DONE? HAS ANYONE FILMED THE ABUSE OF ALL 5 OF THE US EGG PRODUCERS COMMIT? BILLIONS. Which drives egg prices up under Biden.
I'm better qualified, I know the cause, I raise hens, and they are never sick. Injured as chickens are carnivorous dinosaur-related. Price gouging by them, Kroger's, and the other 10 grocery Cabals, Commissary has driven two old people back to gardening. Why should our dog and cat kibble be TOXIC?
Big Kibble: The Hidden Dangers of the Pet Food Industry and How to Do Better by Our Dogs (2020)
https://unbekoming.substack.com/cp/164161431 WHILE THE FOCUS WAS ON DOGS, IT'S THE SAME WITH DOMESTIC CATS.