Democrat Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s husband, William Shaheen, was put on the US Government’s ‘Quiet Skies’ screening list in 2023 after he traveled with an unidentified Arab-American attorney who was on the FBI’s terrorism watchlist.
However, Senator Shaheen quietly contacted then-TSA Administrator David Pekoske to have her Lebanese husband removed from the enhanced screening list.
Two days later, William Shaheen was given preferential treatment and was put on the “secure flight exclusion list” by the TSA.
Quiet Skies is a program by the TSA that uses air marshals to track and observe suspicious passengers. The program’s goal is to identify travelers who may pose a risk to aviation security, in short, a terrorist.
Air marshals observe passengers’ behavior in airports and on flights. They take notes and send detailed reports to the TSA. The program is an expansion of a practice where air marshals surveil subjects of open FBI terrorism investigations. This is the same program weaponized against J6 defendants and their families.
Ordinary American citizens on the Quiet Skies list find it nearly impossible to remove themselves from TSA’s enhanced screening directory.
In fact, former Congresswoman and current ODNI Tulsi Gabbard was under surveillance and placed on the Quiet Skies list by the Biden Regime.
According to CBS News, Senator Shaheen made one phone call to the TSA to have her Lebanese husband removed from the watchlist even though he flew with a ‘known or suspected terrorist watchlist at least three times.
Shaheen claimed she didn’t know her husband was on the ‘Quiet Skies’ list – she said she was just upset that her husband had to endure invasive and degrading searches while he traveled.
Perhaps the degrading, invasive, and arguably unconstitutional screening at airports is only reserved for the commoners who don’t have political connections.
Excerpt from CBS News:
A U.S. senator’s spouse was placed on a government watchlist in 2023 after a surveillance program flagged his travel profile, but he was removed after the senator back-channeled with administration officials, sources familiar with the situation told CBS News.
Shortly after New Hampshire Democrat Jeanne Shaheen spoke with the Transportation Security Administration about her husband, William Shaheen, TSA officials removed him from a list of people subjected to additional scrutiny under TSA’s “Quiet Skies” domestic surveillance program.
William Shaheen, a Lebanese-American attorney active in the Arab-American community, was then placed on a different list, which excluded him from any future advanced screening, including random checks at airport TSA checkpoints, two of the sources said.
Shaheen’s husband, according to sources, was removed from Quiet Skies two days after she contacted David Pekoske, then the TSA administrator. Pekoske served in the post under both Presidents Trump and Biden.
The decision to then shield the senator’s husband by putting him on what TSA calls the “secure flight exclusion list” marked an unusual step in a system meant to operate outside of political interference.
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