Only in Washington would an edict to banish all dissidents be labeled Operation Freedom to Breathe.
The Transportation Security Administration in 2021 created a secret watchlist of individuals who publicly opposed President Joe Biden’s COVID mask mandate.
Operation Freedom to Breathe resulted in dozens of individuals being either banned from flying or hit with additional groping or patdowns.
The covert crackdown only ended when a federal judge struck down Biden’s mask mandate in April 2022. 3
That was only one of a trifecta of TSA surveillance-gone-wild programs Congress and the Department of Homeland Security exposed last week.
Hundreds of Americans were hit by the Biden administration’s secret condemnation of anyone tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol protests.
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