DHS and Kristi Noem Spied Upon

Noem: 'Deep state' in her own department installed spyware on her phone, computer

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem said Thursday that members of her own department secretly installed spyware on government-issued devices used by Trump administration officials, including her phone and laptop, allowing staffers to record meetings and monitor internal communications.

Noem said on "PBD Podcast" that tech experts, including Elon Musk and members of his team, helped her uncover what she described as unauthorized surveillance software embedded on devices assigned to political appointees. Noem said the discovery came after outside technology specialists examined DHS hardware and flagged suspicious software activity.

"I can't believe what I found since I've been in this department. I just found the other day a whole room 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," Noem said. "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."

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