Exclusive: 'I have done nothing wrong.' Lawyer says DHS called her 'suspected terrorist'
Source: USA Today
Updated June 5, 2025, 6:24 p.m. ET
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-N.H., 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 husband, lawyer William “Billy” Shaheen, of having traveled with a “known or suspected terrorist” − and said the senator used her influence to have him removed from a TSA watchlist.
Shaheen denied getting her husband pulled from a watch list, as Atallah − a close family friend − blasted DHS for trying to "score political points by smearing innocent people.”
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/05/jeanne-shaheen-husband-dhs-terrorist-celine-attalah/84056413007/
This seems to be in reference to this that has been floating around - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senator-jeanne-shaheen-husband-travel-watchlist-phone-call-had-him-removed/