SCANDAL: Democrat Senator Got Husband Off TSA “Terror” Watchlist With Just One Phone Call!

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Let’s face it, nobody likes the TSA.

And, you’re especially not going to have a good time if you’re on one of their travel watchlists — like ‘Quiet Skies,’ a program designed to track risky passengers.

Basically, the list is intended to protect from terrorists. And, if you’re on the list, TSA is going to pull you aside for an extra screening each time you fly.

Current DNI Tulsi Gabbard was unfairly put on this list by the Biden regime and had to endure the degrading “enhanced screenings” each time she traveled.

However, as it turns out, TSA bent the rules when a Democrat senator’s husband was put on the same list.

When Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s husband William Shaheen, who is originally from Lebanon, was put onto the travel watchlist, she got him off just by calling up the TSA Administrator.

That in itself is a glaring example of two-tier justice.

Rules for thee, but not for me.

However, it gets even worse…

You see, unlike in the case of Tulsi Gabbard, the TSA had a very good reason for flagging William Shaheen as a potential risk…

He flew with an Arab-American attorney who was flagged by the FBI as a “known or suspected terrorist” not once — but three times!

According to Sen. Shaheen, she didn’t even know her husband was on a TSA terror watchlist.

She just didn’t like that he had to go through invasive screenings every time he passed through airport security.

Per The Daily Beast:

A spokesperson told the Daily Beast that Sen. Shaheen aired complaints to the TSA after her husband endured “several extensive, invasive, and degrading” airport searches.

However, the senator was not informed that her husband was on a watchlist or that he had received special treatment in being excluded from future enhanced screening, the spokesperson said.

Not only did she have her husband’s name pulled from the Quiet Skies list, but she had it added to a “secure flight exclusion list” by the TSA — meaning no additional screenings or random extra checks, ever.

Keep in mind she did this all with only one phone call.

Most Americans who find themselves on this watchlist find it virtually impossible to ever get themselves removed.

CBS News noted:

Quiet Skies, which began in 2010, employs analysts and undercover air marshals to monitor people in airports and during flights, using outstanding warrants, facial recognition software, identification of suspicious travel patterns and behaviors and other data to try to prevent terrorist attacks.
Some Americans undertake exhaustive efforts to get themselves removed from the Quiet Skies enhanced screening list — with some even engaging in protracted legal fights.

Republican Tulsi Gabbard spoke out in 2024 after she was placed on the Quiet Skies list and subjected to searches and monitoring by federal air marshals. Gabbard, a former presidential candidate and Democratic member of Congress, has since been confirmed as the director of national intelligence.

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.

Why the preferential treatment?

The DHS shared in a statement:

After Senator Shaheen directly lobbied the former Administrator, Pekoske gave repeated, explicit direction to exclude Shaheen from the Silent Partner Quiet Skies list. Pekoske granted Billy Shaheen a blanket Silent Partners Quiet Skies exemption despite Shaheen flying with a Known or Suspected Terrorist on three occasions.

All the while, Tulsi Gabbard, and many other Americans, were placed on the Silent Partners’ Quiet Skies list with little to no visibility, awareness, explanation, or oversight.

Billy Shaheen was hardly the only high-profile individual that was placed on this exclusion list. This list also included members of foreign royal families, political elites, professional athletes, and journalists. Shaheen’s blanket exemption has since been revoked.

“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,” said Secretary Kristi Noem. “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.”

 



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