Podcast host Joe Rogan on “The Joe Rogan Experience” on Wednesday denounced whoever was responsible for placing Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard on a suspected terrorist watchlist during the Biden administration.
Whistleblowers disclosed in 2024 that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Federal Air Marshals (FAM) were surveilling Gabbard while she was traveling, asserting that she was placed on a TSA list known as the “Quiet Skies” program.
Rogan highlighted Gabbard’s record of service in Congress and the military on his podcast, arguing whoever put her on the list should be jailed and ashamed.
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“She was a U.S. congresswoman for eight f***ing years. She served overseas in a medical unit, right? So, she was deployed twice in a medical unit in the middle of the f***ing war,” Rogan said. “And you’re labeling her a terrorist? Whoever did that — whoever signed off on that — should be in f***ing 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 some crazy tweets where she’s made … She’s not even like [Republican Georgia Rep.] Marjorie Taylor Greene, who gets hog wild sometimes,” he 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***ing shame on you.”
Gabbard told Matt Taibbi’s Racket News in 2024 that she and her husband endured “random” searches at airports that spanned up to 45 minutes.
“It happened every time I boarded,” Gabbard told the outlet.
“I’ve got a couple of blazers in there, and they’re squeezing every inch of the entire collar, every inch of the sleeves, every inch of the edging of the blazers,” she said. “They’re squeezing or padding [sic] down underwear, bras, workout clothes, every inch of every piece of clothing.”
President Donald Trump’s administration ended the “Quiet Skies” program in June.
“It is clear that the Quiet Skies program was used as a political rolodex of the [former President Joe] Biden Administration—weaponized against its political foes and exploited to benefit their well-heeled friends,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said at the time.
The program had grown after Jan. 6, 2021, to monitor individuals who protested at the Capitol, according to Taibbi.
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