Tulsi Gabbard details shocking TSA treatment she’s forced to endure while flying

Citing “political retaliation,” Tulsi Gabbard broke down the repeated “random” screenings that she and her husband had become subject to after the Biden-Harris TSA added her to a domestic terror watchlist.

Endorsements for the 2024 presidential election have shown a stark contrast between establishment and outsiders as Vice President Kamala Harris curried favor with RINOs. Meanwhile, those opposed to the Washington, D.C. status quo lined up behind former President Donald Trump, including the former Hawaii congresswoman who, for her trouble, was seemingly no longer able to fly without being treated like a criminal.

“My own government has placed me on a secret terror watch list, targeting me as a potential domestic terror threat. Why?” Gabbard asked and answered. “Political retaliation.:

“I spoke out about how dangerous Kamala Harris would be to our nation if she were to be elected as president. And why the American people should be very concerned. Now, just before boarding a flight on July 23rd, my husband and I were pulled aside for additional TSA screening,” she explained before detailing what Quad S (Secondary Security Screening Selection) meant for and her husband’s travel.

“Our electronics were swabbed for traces of explosives. And when we landed, my husband was pulled aside for another round of additional screening,” detailed the former lawmaker. “On the next several flights that we took our boarding passes were marked with the ‘Quad S’ and we were subjected to in-depth searches by the TSA every single time, each time taking 30 to 45 minutes. Every inch of our body patted down, every item in our carry on searched and swabbed for explosive residue and sometimes, going through this all over again at the gate before being allowed to board the plane.”

The U.S. Army Reserve lieutenant colonel recalled, “Every time this happened, we were told by the TSA agent there, ‘This is just a random selection.'”

“Now, that might have been believable if it had happened just once or twice. But five, six, seven, eight times in a row? There’s no way,” asserted Gabbard who recounted, “On Aug. 4, federal air marshal whistleblowers came forward with very disturbing information. They revealed that I had been added to a secret terror watch list run by the TSA called Quiet Skies on July 23. This is the very same day my husband and I began to be subjected to those in-depth TSA searches.”

As had been previously reported, the recently-minted member of Trump’s transition team had returned to “The Ingraham Angle” where she’d initially reacted to Harris being dubbed the then-presumptive nominee by asserting the candidate would “essentially be a mouthpiece and puppet of the Military Industrial Complex and National Security State.”

She told Fox News host Laura Ingraham, “This is a clear act of political retaliation. There’s no other way to put it.”

Gabbard detailed that the alleged retaliation, as revealed by a whistleblower, included, “at least three air marshals were assigned to watch me every time I traveled in the airport and on the flight. TSA deployed explosive K9 detection teams and a TSA explosive specialist.”

“Now, this is extreme by any measure. What were they looking for? What kind of threat did they think I posed? What were they afraid that I was going to do? None of this made sense until I put all the pieces together,” she said before going on to raise the broader concerns about government ties to Big Tech regarding matters of censorship and suppression.

Of course, when Gabbard had brought the same concerns to CNN’s Dana Bash after the anchor had conducted her softball interview of Harris, the network employee showed a complete lack of seriousness by the outlet she represented by claiming to have no knowledge of what the treatment or watch list.

“I’m not familiar with the secret terror watch list,” said Bash, adding before shifting gears, “We’re definitely going to follow up on that.”

Kevin Haggerty

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