On Tuesday, Fox News contributor and Weekly Standard columnist Stephen Hayes informed the Twitterverse that he’s been placed on the DHS terrorist watch list.
Worse yet, when he went to file a redress against the agency, he learned his form could not be processed.
Just informed I'm on the @DHSgov terrorist watch list. Explains why I have been subject to extra screening each of my recent trips.
— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) September 23, 2014
Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?
Naturally, when I went to file a "redress" form on the @DHSgov website, as instructed, the form could not be processed. #limbo
— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) September 23, 2014
I suspect I made the list b/c of concerns about #Syria. I took a one-way flight to Turkey in late July (return flight was Athens). @DHSgov
— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) September 23, 2014
There’s another possibility. Can you say “Fox News?”
My good friend and colleague Chris Collins said the DHS has “a history of creating controversy since its inception when a report, ‘Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment’ was leaked out in 2009 that veterans could be viewed as terrorists, mainly the veterans who have come back from war in the Middle East.”
Responses were pretty much what you’d expect:
@stephenfhayes @DHSgov That's what you get for being on Special Report with known Enemy of the State Bret Baier.
— David Rutz (@DavidRutz) September 23, 2014
Bingo!
@stephenfhayes @DHSgov Been a little too critical of the administration?
— Broncos Jeff (@BroncosJeff) September 23, 2014
Perhaps…
@stephenfhayes @DHSgov
Uh Oh. Nothing marks you as a terrorist like having the title of "Fox News Contributor".— D2 (@DoreenHDickson) September 23, 2014
Very true.
Keep in mind that under Obama, the U.S. has slipped to 46th in the world on press freedom. Now, Romania has a more free press than the United States. Wonderful…
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