A DHS staffer faces serious punishment for accidentally adding a reporter to a group email

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2. DHS Official Placed on Leave After Adding Reporter to Sensitive Email Chain

Source: The Daily Beast

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DHS Official Placed on Leave After Adding Reporter to Sensitive Email Chain

The employee accidentally included a journalist in an email thread discussing a forthcoming ICE operation.

Julia Ornedo
Reporter
Published Mar. 27 2025 8:26PM EDT

It turns out there are consequences for mistakenly leaking information about sensitive government operations to journalists.

A longtime Department of Homeland Security employee was placed on administrative leave after accidentally sending unclassified details of an immigration operation to a journalist in late January, according to current and former DHS officials who spoke to NBC News. The staffer was also reportedly told last week that the agency plans to revoke her security clearance.

The DHS employee, who declined to speak to NBC, told colleagues that she mistakenly added a reporter from a conservative media outlet to an email thread detailing information about a forthcoming Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Denver.

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