Only in Washington would an edict to banish all dissidents be labeled Operation Freedom to Breathe.

The Transportation Security Administration in 2021 created a secret watchlist of individuals who publicly opposed President Joe Biden’s COVID mask mandate.

Operation Freedom to Breathe resulted in dozens of individuals being either banned from flying or hit with additional groping or patdowns.

The covert crackdown only ended when a federal judge struck down Biden’s mask mandate in April 2022.

That was only one of a trifecta of TSA surveillance-gone-wild programs Congress and the Department of Homeland Security exposed last week.

Hundreds of Americans were hit by the Biden administration’s secret condemnation of anyone tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol protests.

TSA approved “enhanced screening” and watchlists for anyone “suspected of traveling to the National Capital Region” for those, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) revealed.

TSA bloated the list of Jan. 6 suspects by tapping a George Washington University database of alleged extremists — which was as credible as randomly selecting names of Trump donors.

A TSA privacy officer protested: “TSA is punishing people for the expression of their ideas when they haven’t been charged, let alone convicted of incitement or sedition.”

New dirt also came to the surface about the

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