Recent revelations that the Federal Bureau of Investigation spied on FBI Director Kash Patel and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles during their time as private citizens are still fresh in our minds. Now, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claims she has uncovered a more recent plot by the Deep State to surveil her communications.
She says that Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and President Trump’s one-time DOGE chief, played a key role in helping her identify moles within the department:
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem said Thursday that members of her own department secretly installed spyware on government-issued devices used by Trump administration officials, including her phone and laptop, allowing staffers to record meetings and monitor internal communications.
Noem said on “PBD Podcast” that tech experts, including Elon Musk and members of his team, helped her uncover what she described as unauthorized surveillance software embedded on devices assigned to political appointees. Noem said the discovery came after outside technology specialists examined DHS hardware and flagged suspicious software activity.
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There’s no such thing as the Deep State? Really?
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
She added in her tweet:
We found secret, secure rooms with hidden files that we turned over to attorneys.
Under the leadership of @POTUS Trump, @DHSgov is returning to the standard of excellence and behavior we expect our government agencies to function at. We will root out actors who do not have the interests of America in mind.
Noem says she’s still trying to figure out the depth of the problem:
“I can’t believe what I found since I’ve been in this department. I just found the other day a whole room on this campus that was a secret SCIF —secure facility [known as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility] — that had files nobody knew existed.
“So we just happened to have an employee walk by a door and wonder what it was and started asking questions,” Noem said. “We went in there. There were individuals working there that had secret files that nobody knew about on some of these most controversial topics like that, and now I’ve got that turned over to attorneys, and we’re getting to the bottom of what exactly happened there.”
It’s not the first time Noem has claimed there are traitors within the ranks. Earlier in February, she announced that the DHS would use lie detectors to identify employees leaking information about ICE raids:
BOOM! Kristi Noem Unleashes Patriot Fury: Lie Detectors to Root Out Deep State ICE Raid Leakers
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, a true MAGA warrior, dropped a bombshell today, warning weak-kneed employees that lie detector tests are coming to smoke out the traitors leaking ICE raid… pic.twitter.com/IXUvh7ZJDw
— MAGA Resource (@MAGAResource) February 19, 2025
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, a true MAGA warrior, dropped a bombshell today, warning weak-kneed employees that lie detector tests are coming to smoke out the traitors leaking ICE raid plans.
Trump learned the hard way during his first term that a significant number of people entrenched within the federal bureaucracy were not aligned with his vision for the country, actively working to undermine it. If Noem’s claims hold any truth, it appears that some of these individuals are still engaging in their old tactics.
Not everyone in Trump’s circle is a supporter of Noem; her critics often dismissively label her as “ICE Barbie” and circulate rumors about her impending job loss. Regardless of some opinions about her, it has become increasingly clear that it’s time to identify and confront those who are clandestinely working against the administration, holding them accountable through federal indictments.
