The Trump administration will end the Transportation Security Administration’s Quiet Skies program that monitors suspected terror threats in U.S. airports, the Department of Homeland Security announced this week.
Quiet Skies is a federal domestic surveillance program that began in 2010 and uses analysts and undercover air marshals to monitor people in and around U.S. airports in an effort to prevent terror attacks.
In a statement, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said, “It is clear that this program was used as a political rolodex of the Biden Administration — weaponized against its political foes and to benefit their well-heeled friends.”
She added, “This program should have been about the equal application of security, instead it was corrupted to be about political targeting. The Trump Administration will restore the integrity, privacy, and equal application of the law for all Americans, including aviation screening.”
In a social media post released this week, Noem pointed to National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard’s claims that she was placed on a “domestic terror watch list” after she left the Democratic Party and became a critic of former President Joe Biden. The Biden administration said at the time that her inclusion on the list was not a political decision and she was removed from the program.
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