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DHS Official Placed on Leave, May Have Clearance Revoked After ‘Accidentally’ Adding Reporter to Email Chain on Upcoming ICE Raids
Gateway Pundit ^ | March 27, 2025 | Staff

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; denver; dhs; ice; interference; leaker; obstruction; opsec; raid; sabotage; undermining
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1 posted on 03/27/2025 6:00:19 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

“did not want to identify”.......HER !!


2 posted on 03/27/2025 6:02:50 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Red Badger

This is about an email chain....my gut tells me there’s more to this....


3 posted on 03/27/2025 6:05:25 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Red Badger

I thought it was a Chinese Agent named Wong who leaked the plans to The Atlantic.


4 posted on 03/27/2025 6:06:33 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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To: Red Badger

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


5 posted on 03/27/2025 6:07:12 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Red Badger
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.

Because its the pro deportation folks interfering with govt activities.

6 posted on 03/27/2025 6:07:21 PM PDT by Mean Daddy
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To: Red Badger

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.


7 posted on 03/27/2025 6:08:02 PM PDT by citizen (Political incrementalism is like compound interest for liberals - every little bit adds up.)
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To: Red Badger

Probably too worried about her nails drying.


8 posted on 03/27/2025 6:09:05 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: maddog55

Noem should deal with this appropriately. I leave it to her.

But it’s *another* access mistake. Bad.


9 posted on 03/27/2025 6:10:59 PM PDT by citizen (Political incrementalism is like compound interest for liberals - every little bit adds up.)
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To: Red Badger

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”.


10 posted on 03/27/2025 6:11:33 PM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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Yes


11 posted on 03/27/2025 6:12:33 PM PDT by citizen (Political incrementalism is like compound interest for liberals - every little bit adds up.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Loomer Theory...................


12 posted on 03/27/2025 6:12:36 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

An “Accident”.


13 posted on 03/27/2025 6:14:08 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Red Badger

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.


14 posted on 03/27/2025 6:16:51 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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To: Red Badger

“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


15 posted on 03/27/2025 6:18:53 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Red Badger

Self-contradictory sentence:

“The email did not include classified material, however, ... it detailed time, location and target of raids.”


16 posted on 03/27/2025 6:19:17 PM PDT by Chad N. Freud (FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
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To: Red Badger

It wasn’t an accident.


17 posted on 03/27/2025 6:20:09 PM PDT by sport
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To: Red Badger

THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS.


18 posted on 03/27/2025 6:20:59 PM PDT by VastRWCon (Fake News)
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To: Red Badger

Conspiracy and espionage.

The anti-Trump activist reporter was added on purpose to a meeting where he hoped to see Classified intelligence.


19 posted on 03/27/2025 6:22:10 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: Red Badger

why are they not in prison?

this bullshit is never going to stop until people start going to prison...


20 posted on 03/27/2025 6:23:00 PM PDT by sit-rep
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