Overview

• The internal DHS/TSA review says 19 Americans who resisted mask mandates were watchlisted in late 2021, with more than half placed on no‑fly status and at least 11 kept until April 2022.
• Roughly 280 individuals linked to Jan. 6 were entered into TSA watchlists, including five on no‑fly lists, with most removals recorded on June 28, 2021.
• Emails show officials leaned on a George Washington University extremism database and social media rather than FBI or local police reporting to identify targets.
• Career privacy and intelligence officials warned the actions were unrelated to transportation security, yet examples of bad intelligence included a National Guardsman and a federal air marshal’s wife wrongly flagged.
• DHS says five senior TSA leaders have been removed, Quiet Skies has been terminated, and the findings are now with DOJ’s Civil Rights Division and Congress as Senate oversight hearings proceed.