Overview
- Lead Stories reported on November 26 that DHS.gov lists Iwona B. Horyn as the acting chief security officer.
- A matching LinkedIn profile, archived congressional hearing transcripts, and a BeenVerified record corroborate her identity and role.
- The photo and name resurfaced from an October 5 Antipolygraph article about a DHS polygraph directive tied to leak-related questions under Secretary Kristi Noem.
- The meme-driven spread accelerated on November 25–26 through posts by @KLobstar, @feraljokes, @kenklippenstein on X and @andylevy.net on Bluesky.
- Coverage notes ongoing social-media jokes about the name while finding no public DHS statement addressing the viral reaction.