AN UNPRECEDENTED LEAK of Department of Homeland Security records has exposed details of more than 41,000 employees or contractors who work for the department and its constituent agencies. The records include email addresses, phone numbers, and office addresses, but also references to internal systems and sensitive information on undercover and surveillance programs. In all, the leak provides a map of how DHS is organized and how it operates.
The records, which span DHS itself as well as seven component agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and US Customs and Border Protection, were last updated on August 19, 2026. The transparency nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets and cybersecurity researcher and journalist maia arson crimew previewed the data to WIRED, which they say they obtained from a group calling itself the Department of Peace.
Which makes it all the more crazy that ICE feels that it needs additional unaccountability beyond what already covers cops for so much.
It’s because they know they’re an authoritarian paramilitary group and they are doing things that they could personally be tried for treason if their side ends up losing, like they always do eventually.
They don’t want to be personally identifiable if possible, because at any point someone could decide to Kirk them when they’re not in their goon squad at work.
Deporting people to unrelated countries to be imprisoned or enslaved should open them up to trials in The Hague.