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A New England lawyer says she’s been marked as a possible terrorist amid a fight between the Homeland Security Department and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, over a TSA watchlist.
Immigration attorney Celine Atallah says she is the unnamed suspicious “co-traveler” mentioned in a June 4 DHS press release attacking the senator — but insisted she’s been unfairly tarred.
DHS accused Shaheen’s lawyer husband, William “Billy” Shaheen, of having traveled with a “known or suspected terrorist” — and said the senator had used her influence to have him removed from a TSA watchlist.
Shaheen denied getting her husband removed from a watch list, as Atallah, a close family friend blasted DHS for trying to "score political points by smearing innocent people.”
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