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Rep. Abe Hamadeh’s revelation that he was quietly placed on the TSA’s so-called Quiet Skies watchlist should outrage every patriot who values privacy and the Constitution. Hamadeh told Fox viewers and later confirmed in statements that he was flagged during the winter of 2022 while challenging election irregularities in Arizona — a chilling example of a federal program turned inward against political opponents.
The Department of Homeland Security under Secretary Kristi Noem has since shuttered the program, calling out widespread abuses and politicization that betrayed the mission of public safety and squandered taxpayer dollars. Officials said Quiet Skies cost roughly two hundred million dollars a year and failed to stop a single terrorist attack, yet it was apparently used to shadow Americans who dared speak against the establishment.
This is not an isolated scare: documents and whistleblower accounts dating back years revealed marshals observing innocent travelers for bizarre behavioral tics and collecting notes on entirely lawful activity. Quiet Skies’ methods — from surveilling passengers on flights to logging mundane behaviors — were criticized by oversight bodies long before the latest revelations, proving the program was ripe for abuse.
Americans should be furious that a tool intended for aviation safety could be weaponized into a political list that trailed conservatives, veterans, and critics of the prior administration. Congress and the new DHS leadership are finally moving to investigate, and senior officials tied to the mismanagement of the program are being removed; that accountability cannot be symbolic or shallow.
This scandal is a wake-up call: left unchecked, the administrative state will quietly harvest power and surveil citizens who dissent. It is past time for House and Senate Republicans to dig into the documents, subpoena the decision-makers, and enact real reforms that protect Americans from secret watchlists and ensure redress for those wrongly targeted.
Abe Hamadeh’s courage in speaking out should inspire every freedom-loving American to demand answers and safeguards — not only for himself, but for anyone who has been labeled a “threat” for exercising their rights. We must turn this moment of abuse into a triumph for liberty: purge politicized programs, restore equal protection under the law, and never allow the federal security apparatus to be used as a tool of partisan reprisal again.
