Popular podcaster Joe Rogan issued a scathing criticism on Wednesday against the person responsible for putting Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, a former U.S. congresswoman, on a suspected terrorist watchlist under former President Joe Biden’s administration.
A report released last year cited whistleblowers who confirmed that Gabbard had been placed under surveillance as part of the Transportation Security Administration’s “Quiet Skies” program under the Biden administration. Whistleblowers claimed that Federal Air Marshals conducted surveillance on Gabbard when she traveled on airplanes.
Racket News reported that Gabbard told the outlet that she and her husband were subjected to “random” searches at U.S. airports and that some of the searches lasted as long as 45 minutes. “It happened every time I boarded,” Gabbard said.
During Wednesday’s episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” Rogan criticized the person responsible for putting Gabbard on a terrorist watchlist under the “Quiet Skies” program and suggested that the person should be put in jail.
“She was a U.S. congresswoman for eight f-cking years. She served overseas in a medical unit, right? So, she was deployed twice in a medical unit in the middle of the f-cking war,” Rogan said. “And you’re labeling her a terrorist? Like whoever did that — like whoever signed off on that — should be in f-cking jail. That’s crazy. That’s such an abuse. That’s such an abuse of power. And you want to talk about going after your political enemies in a sick, third-world country way — that’s a great example of that.”
“You put a congresswoman for eight years on the terrorist watchlist — for what? For what reason? None? No reason? There’s not like some crazy tweets where she’s made … She’s not even like [Republican Georgia Rep.] Marjorie Taylor Greene, who gets hog wild sometimes,” Rogan added. “She’s not like that … Tulsi’s not like that at all, and you put her on a terrorist watchlist? Shame on you. F-cking shame on you.”
The Department of Homeland Security announced in June that the Trump administration was terminating the “Quiet Skies” program. The department noted that the “Quiet Skies” program cost U.S. taxpayers $200 per year and failed to prevent any terrorist attacks.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem explained that the program was used to target political opponents, saying, “It is clear that the Quiet Skies program was used as a political rolodex of the Biden Administration—weaponized against its political foes and exploited to benefit their well-heeled friends.”
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