In an exclusive story citing federal air marshals, news website UndercoverDC said whistleblowers have come forward after they were assigned to watch the former congresswoman, former presidential candidate, and Democrat-turned-Independent.
The Federal Air Marshal Service, or FAMS, is an agency under the supervision of the Transportation Security Administration, or TSA. The federal air marshals, who are armed, work undercover in airports and on airliners to watch for potential threats.
Beyond watching for a deranged passenger, or a terrorist in hiding, the air marshals also track passengers who are listed in a secretive TSA surveillance program called “Quiet Skies."
Gabbard was added to the “Quiet Skies” list July 23, the whistleblowers allege. The previous day, July 22, Gabbard had appeared on Fox News (pictured above) where she criticized Kamala Harris and laughed at a clip of the Vice President’s bizarre gaffes.
Gabbard humiliated Harris in debate
Gabbard, now 43, was little known to much of the public when she sought the Democratic nomination in 2019 with a wide range of liberal and conservative political views on hot-button issues. During the first Democrat debate, she famously broke the Internet after she criticized Harris over her record as California attorney general.
After the debate, Gabbard's name took off on Google's search engine, but the Big Tech giant was accused of hurting her campaign by freezing her Google Ads account. Gabbard later sued Google but eventually dropped her lawsuit.
According to the Undercover DC story, air marshals began following Gabbard July 25 with a full team that i
ncluded two explosive-detecting canine teams, one explosives specialist, one plainclothes TSA supervisor, and three federal air marshals.
It wasn’t clear from the story if that entire six-person team tracks Gabbard through the airport and then boards her flight, too.
Undercover DC learned about the surveillance of Gabbard by a national advocacy group, the Air Marshal National Council. The news website was also given a copy of Gabbard’s photo (pictured below) the air marshals were handed in their “Target Package” that was used to monitor her.
Gabbard was first elected to Congress in 2002 at the age of 21. She later gave up her seat when her Army National Guard unit deployed to Iraq but later won election to Congress in 2011.
After dropping out of the primary, Gabbard endorsed Joe Biden for president in 2020 but announced in 2022 she was leaving the Democratic Party.
After she learned about her “Quiet Skies” designation, Gabbards told Fox News this week it feels like a “betrayal” for her own government to label her a potential domestic terrorist.
“I would not be surprised to know that there are other government agencies, who are also being weaponized against political opponents,” she said, “those who dare to challenge this regime of the Biden-Harris administration.”
