Today, I pressed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem on her response in the immediate aftermath of the deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good – who were shot and killed by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis in January – in which she lied to the American public by falsely labeling these victims as having committed “acts of domestic terrorism.”
During the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, I demanded Noem take responsibility for the mishandling of internal investigations by DHS – including politicalized manipulation of facts and the agency’s refusal to work with state and local investigators, stating “You are responsible, you are responsible. You could insist on independent investigations, but you are not. You could wait until there is good information after a shooting before you go to the press and the public and mislead them.”
