Tulsi Gabbard details ‘stress’ from life under surveillance

Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said she and her family are stressed due to increased levels of surveillance after whistleblowers reported multiple air marshals have been on flights with the former congresswoman .

"This is only the information that we know. Obviously, I experienced a significant change in my travel when all of this began on July 23," Gabbard said on Fox News's Hannity.

Host Sean Hannity informed his audience at least three to five air marshals had joined Gabbard on flights and that she was subject to a lengthy screening process.

"My real question is, what don't I know?" she said. "This is the real pain and stress that's been caused both to me and my family by this whole situation ... day and night wondering if and what government institution and agency is monitoring my phone calls, surveilling me in my movement in my travels, knowing that they may be looking for some kind of excuse or derogatory action to come after me."

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) has come to Gabbard's defense following reports from whistleblowers inside the Federal Air Marshal Service that she had been enrolled in the TSA's Quiet Skies program, a suspected terrorist watchlist, according to a release from Burchett's office.

"I have been told Mrs. Gabbard has been placed on a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) watchlist under a program known as ‘Quiet Skies’. I find this profoundly troubling for a number of reasons," Burchett wrote in a letter to TSA Administrator David Pekoske.

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"Given this environment, it's impossible to feel free," Gabbard said. "No American deserves this. No American deserves to live in fear of our own government."

"We know under the Biden-Harris administration, they have no hesitation in weaponizing all means possible, all tools available to them, to target and go after their political opponents, anyone they deem as a threat to their power," she added.