'An Honesty problem': Analyst says DHS credibility sunk by ‘remarkable rate’ of falsehoods

The Department of Homeland Security and its leader “do not deserve the benefit of the doubt,” according to MS NOW analyst Philip Bump, who argued in a searing op-ed that the agency and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem have developed an “honesty problem.”

“You cannot trust the Department of Homeland Security,” Bump wrote Friday, citing data and public misstatements under the Trump administration. He told readers that his conclusion “seems like a political statement, but it isn’t.”

“It is...