Kristi Noem claims her own DHS employees spied on her
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem sang the praises of tech billionaire Elon Musk after she claimed he helped expose spyware on her devices planted by her own staff.
Noem dropped the explosive claims during an hour-long podcast appearance with MAGA personality Patrick Bet-David released Thursday. The clip was flagged by The Daily Beast.
“I’ll tell you, Patrick, even from the time I came into this office, it was—Elon and his team were extremely helpful to me,” she said. “They helped me identify that some of my own employees in my department had downloaded software on my phone and my laptop to spy on me, to record our meetings.”
Noem claimed staffers spied on multiple political appointees before she took action.
“They had done that to several of the politicals,” she added. “And so we ended up bringing in people, and that was something that, if you didn’t have those technology experts here in the department looking at all of our laptops and our phones and recognizing that kind of software, it would still be happening today.”
The scandal-ridden DHS chief revealed the culprits were "brought in, polygraphed, fired." She also claimed her office requires regular sweeps for listening devices and discovered a secret file room containing classified documents now in the hands of attorneys.