Posted on 03/27/2025 6:00:19 PM PDT by Red Badger
A DHS official was placed on leave and may have their security clearance revoked for ‘accidentally’ adding a reporter to an email chain about an upcoming ICE raids in greater Denver area.
According to NBC News, a DHS worker included a Washington-based reporter in an email chain detailing an upcoming ICE raids back in January.
The email did not include classified material, however, the information was still considered sensitive because it detailed time, location and target of raids.
The DHS worker called the reporter and told them that they were ‘accidentally’ added to the email. The reporter promised to disclose any information. The raids were conducted without incident, NBC News reported.
The unidentified DHS worker was placed on leave and they may have their security clearance revoked.
NBC News reported:
The DHS employee who was put on leave did not speak to NBC News. The officials who did didn’t want to identify her out of fear she would face retaliation from members of the public who are pro-immigration enforcement.
The DHS employee told colleagues she accidentally added a reporter from a conservative Washington-based print publication to an email that included information about upcoming ICE operations in the Denver area. The officials said the information was not classified but considered law enforcement sensitive because it included the time of day for the operation and possible home locations where targets could be identified.
Realizing her mistake immediately, the employee called the reporter who agreed not to disclose the information, the officials said.
The ICE operation took place without incident, the officials said.
But another person on the email group flagged the blunder to higher-ups at DHS at a time when Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and border czar Tom Homan were blaming leaks to the media for lower-than-expected arrest numbers during ICE roundups, the officials said.
“did not want to identify”.......HER !!
This is about an email chain....my gut tells me there’s more to this....
I thought it was a Chinese Agent named Wong who leaked the plans to The Atlantic.
On leave? You don’t “accidentally” do this shxt.
Fire them, revoke any clearance and perp walk them on TV and through DHS as a warning
Because its the pro deportation folks interfering with govt activities.
Looks like an honest mistake to a reporter on a conservative outlet. But, still...we can’t just say no harm, no foul.
Examine the doings of the DHS employee.
Probably too worried about her nails drying.
Noem should deal with this appropriately. I leave it to her.
But it’s *another* access mistake. Bad.
This whole episode is a good lesson on how easy it is to eff up an really big winning streak with just one stupid mistake. (Assuming that’s what it was).
Everything Trump is doing is balanced on a knife-edge and mistakes are not acceptable. As Elon said in the FNC interview “check it twice if not thrice”.
Yes
Loomer Theory...................
An “Accident”.
Maybe so.
But if it wasn’t Wong then who? Somebody has to be the fall guy here.
Kicking the can down the road won’t make the problem go away.
“Accidentally” my ass, just like with the Signal chat, it was DELIBERATE..No matter how many roaches you get rid of in these depts, there are thousands more roaches that come out for the commies
Self-contradictory sentence:
“The email did not include classified material, however, ... it detailed time, location and target of raids.”
It wasn’t an accident.
THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS.
Conspiracy and espionage.
The anti-Trump activist reporter was added on purpose to a meeting where he hoped to see Classified intelligence.
why are they not in prison?
this bullshit is never going to stop until people start going to prison...
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