Kristi Noem claims staff planted spyware on her phone and laptop to record meetings

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Kristi Noem claimed that her employees planted spyware on her phone and laptop to spy on her and record the meetings.

During an hour-long podcast appearance with MAGA personality Patrick Bet-David, Noem thanked tech billionaire Elon Musk and his team for identifying spyware on her phone and laptop, Rawstory reported.

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“I’ll tell you, Patrick, even from the time I came into this office, it was—Elon and his team were extremely helpful to me,” she said. “They helped me identify that some of my own employees in my department had downloaded software on my phone and my laptop to spy on me, to record our meetings.”

Noem claimed staffers spied on multiple political appointees before she took action.

“They had done that to several of the politicals,” she added. “And so we ended up bringing in people, and that was something that, if you didn’t have those technology experts here in the department looking at all of our laptops and our phones and recognizing that kind of software, it would still be happening today.”

Noem said the culprits were "brought in, polygraphed, fired." She also said her office required regular sweeps for listening devices and discovered a secret file room containing classified documents now in the hands of attorneys.