Uproar as staff strongarmed to greenlight dubious top-secret facility in Noem's home state

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is drawing backlash with her department's quiet push of a controversial plan to build a top-secret intelligence facility at a South Dakota university, according to insiders.

Multiple current and former officials familiar with the scheme told Politico that Noem's DHS pressured the nation's cyber defense agency CISA to back a "sensitive compartmented information facility" at Dakota State University despite a glaring problem — there's no legitimate national security reason for it.