URGENT: CLICK TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE LEFT!
(DC Pundit) – If you ever needed proof that the so-called “Deep State” isn’t just a conservative fever dream, Kristi Noem has now handed you Exhibit A.
During an appearance on The PBD Podcast hosted by Patrick Bet-David, Noem revealed that staffers inside the Department of Homeland Security installed spyware on her government-issued phone and laptop.
“Elon Musk and his team were extremely helpful to me. 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. They had done that to several of the politicals,” Kristi Noem said.
Bet-David could barely contain himself. “Stop it!” he responded. “Wow!” Unbelievable.”
Performing my role as Secretary of Homeland Security has shown me just how real and dangerous the deep state really is.@elonmusk helped us find that a few DHS staff had installed spying software on the phones and computers of myself and other political hires. We found secret,… pic.twitter.com/ktnM6j7kog
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) February 26, 2026
According to Noem, the spyware discovery wasn’t the only shock. She said her team uncovered “secret, secure rooms with hidden files that we turned over to attorneys.” Let that sink in. Hidden rooms. Hidden files. Inside DHS.
Noem credited outside tech expertise for stopping what she suggested was an ongoing internal surveillance effort. “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,” Noem said.
“So one of the things I need to do and continue to do is partner with technology companies and experts to bring them in and help us, because many times in government… we are just behind,” she added.
For conservatives who have long warned about entrenched bureaucrats working against elected leadership, this story won’t come as a surprise. Noem went even further, stating that the Deep State “is indeed real,” and that she is still finding individuals embedded within DHS who, in her view, “hate America.”
If even Cabinet-level officials can be surveilled from within their own departments, it raises a serious question: who’s really running things?
Conservatives have been asking that very question for years. Now, they have one more reason to keep asking.
URGENT: CLICK TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE LEFT!
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