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The National Security Department, on Wednesday, gave the alarm of the alleged transportation administration (TSA) “corruption”, accusing a Democratic senator for a long time to press the Biden administration so that her husband would remove from a surveillance list despite the fact that she supposedly flew with a “known or suspicious terrorist.”
New Hampshire's senator, Jeanne Shaheen, William “Billy” Shaheen, “traveled with a known or presumed terrorist three times in a single year,” DHS said in a statement.
The Trump administration cited Wednesday evidence “details the politicization of the TSA Surveillance List program under the Biden Administration.” DHS says that the evidence includes documents, correspondence and discovered deadlines that clearly highlight the “inconsistent application of the silent partners of the silent skies and the biden administration observation programs to benefit friends and family aligned politically at the expense of the US people.”
The DHS states that Senator Shaheen “directly pressed” the former TSA administrator, David Pekoske. Pekoske then supposedly “gave a repeated and explicit direction” to exclude the senator from the senator from the quiet skies of the silent couple.
“Senator Shaheen contacted the transport security administration after his husband underwent several extensive, invasive and degrading searches at the airport control points,” said a Shaheen senator spokesman in a statement to Fox News Digital. “Senator Shaheen sought to understand the nature and cause of these searches. Any suggestion that the senator's husband supposedly was included in a list of quiet skies is news for her and had never been raised before this week. He also did not realize any action taken after his call to get him out of that list.”
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Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Kevin Cramer at the United States Embassy in Ottawa, Canada, on May 23, 2025. (Justin Tang /The Canadian Press through AP)
“Pekoske gave Billy Shaheen an exemption from quiet skies of silent partners even though Shaheen flies with a known or suspicious terrorist three times,” DHS said Wednesday. “All the time, Tulsi Gabbard and many other Americans were placed in the list of quiet skies of silent partners with little or no visibility, consciousness, explanation or supervision.”
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The Trump administration states that Billy Shaheen “was not the only high profile individual who was placed in this exclusion list”, which allegedly included members of Foreign Real Families, political elites, professional athletes and journalists.
DHS said Billy Shaheen's “general exemption has been revoked.”
“It is clear that this program was used as a political role of the Biden Administration, armed against their political enemies and to benefit their wealthy friends,” said DHS secretary Kristi Noem, in a statement. “This program should have been on the equal application of security, instead, was corrupted on political orientation. The Trump administration will restore integrity, privacy and equal application of the law for all Americans, including aviation detection.”
Senator Jeanne Shaheen greets the Secretary of Education Linda McMahon before a Senate assignments hearing, Tuesday, June 3, 2025, in Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Julia DeMaree Nikhinson)
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DHS said the program for too long “has produced little or no measurable security impact and lay at the expense of the US traveler.”
According to the Timeline of the DHS events, Billy Shaheen was a “random selective of TSA” on his flights from Boston Logan International Airport to the Washington-Reagan International Airport and then from Washington Dulles to Boston's International Airport on July 20, 2023. “Billy Shaheen was first marked as a co-viajero (KST), “said DHS.
Shortly after his trip, Shaheen's office “did an investigation to TSA on the senator's husband who received an improved detection of these two flights,” DHS said.
He was marked for the second time as co-translator of a known or suspicious terrorist again on October 18, 2023, and Senator Shaheen met with Pekoske about her husband “in a surveillance list,” according to DHS.
Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, Kevin Cramer and Peter Welch participate in a press conference at the United States Embassy in Ottawa on May 23, 2025. (Justin Tang /The Canadian Press through AP)
“TSA did not reveal any information about the surveillance list,” DHS said.
On October 20, 2023, Nancy Nykamp, then an assisted administrator of intelligence and analysis, approved Billy Shaheen to be added to the “safe list of flight exclusion.” That means that it was “excluded from any future designation of selection of TSA Random, and the designation of the selects based on rules, such as the calm skies, the designation of rules selection based on the association or the designation of selecture of silent partners,” according to the Trump administration. Nykamp departed remarkably TSA in March 2025.
DHS said that the legislative issues of the TSA communicated with Nykamp on October 24, 2023, and referred to the action taken to add Shaheen to the safe list of flight exclusion.
Billy Shaheen remained in the safe flight exclusion list for 18 months until the current leadership of the TSA eliminated it.
Shaheen, the highest ranking Democrat in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced in March that he is not looking for re -election in 2026, but her daughter, Stefany Shaheen, last week announced that she is postulated for a key seat of the house.
Stefany Shaheen went to the accusations against her father during a New Hampshire local radio interview on Thursday.
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“It clearly had to be a misunderstanding,” said Stefany Shaheen to Wgir. “My father is a patriot. Everyone who knows him knows how patriotic he is. He is a former army captain, he was an American lawyer, he has been a judge for 17 years, he has been a lawyer for his entire professional life, so there was clearly a misunderstanding here, and I think the question was how to get to the bottom of how the evil understood began.”
“I don't think there is anything inappropriate here,” he added, emphasizing that his father is a “long -standing lawyer” and a veteran. “Certainly there was only an attempt to get to the bottom of which this misunderstanding began.”
