The Department of Homeland Security is facing a lawsuit after Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas refused to explain why a former spokesperson for the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) was still employed by the department months after The Daily Wire exposed her support for terrorism and extreme anti-Semitism.

Nejwa Ali was hired by the U.S. government to “perform credible fear interviews by reviewing evidence, credibility, and determine admissibility” of asylum-seekers. While working for DHS, her social media consisted largely of a jihad against Jews, posting memes celebrating Hamas terrorists paragliding into a dance festival with guns, writing “F*** Israel, the government, and its military. Are you ready for your downfall?” and sharing videos with captions like “F*** Israel and any Jew that supports Israel,” The Daily Wire revealed October 18.

DHS said it put her on leave after that story, but six months later, she was still being paid, gloating online about her unpaid leave and seeming to suggest that Mayorkas was protecting her. On social media, when somebody commented on her page, “When you do everything you can to get fired but the boss says NO,” she responded, “hilarious, seriously.

The department violated the Freedom of Information Act by refusing to provide documents about Ali in response to a November request, according to a new lawsuit filed by the Center to Advance Security in America (CASA) against DHS.

The FOIA sought “records related to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Adjudication Officer Nejwa Ali and a potential conflict of interest in administering her duties,” exploring whether she ushered in dangerous Palestinians or denied entry to Israelis.

The request also sought to determine what kind of vetting DHS did when hiring her. DHS says that asylum seekers are thoroughly vetted, but it seemingly either did not even vet the person hired to do the vetting, or it knew she worked for a terrorist group and hired her anyway. Ali was working for the PLO until the United States designated it a terrorism group, and it was banished from Washington.

The lawsuit, filed in DC federal court on May 31, said that DHS acknowledged receipt of the FOIA, but had not responded to it in any way more than 200 days later. It also requests internal emails about DHS’ effort to control the narrative about Ali.

It asks a judge to “Order Defendant to produce, within ten days of the Court’s order, or by other such date as the Court deems appropriate, any and all non-exempt records responsive to CASA’s FOIA request and an index justifying the withholding of all or part of any responsive records withheld under claim of exemption” and “Award CASA the costs of this proceeding.”

James Fitzpatrick, CASA’s director, told The Daily Wire that “CASA submitted this FOIA request immediately upon learning of Nejwa Ali’s work for the Palestinian delegation to the U.S., UNWRA,  and the virulent, disgusting, anti-Semitic content on her social media pages.”

Pamela Smart, the woman who became infamous in the 1990s for having an affair with a 15-year-old boy who eventually murdered her husband, has finally acknowledged her responsibility for the death.

Smart, 56, accepted responsibility for her husband’s murder in a videotaped statement in an attempt to get her sentence for her role in the crime reduced, the Associated Press reported. Smart was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for her part in the murder.

In her taped statement, Smart said she had begun to “dig deeper into my own responsibility” while participating in a writing group in the prison where she is incarcerated.

“For me, that was really hard, because going into those places, in those spaces is where I found myself responsible for something I desperately didn’t want to be responsible for, my husband’s murder,” she said in the video, according to the AP. “I had to acknowledge for the first time in my own mind and my own heart how responsible I was, because I had deflected blame all the time, I think, almost as if it was a coping mechanism, because the truth of being so responsible was very difficult for me.”

Smart has already exhausted her appeals for her convictions on accomplice to first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and witness tampering. She’s asking for a conversation with New Hampshire’s Executive Council and Gov. Chris Sununu in the hopes of getting her sentence reduced. The council rejected her last request in 2022, which she appealed to the state Supreme Court. The highest court dismissed her petition.

Val Fryatt, a cousin to Smart’s murdered husband Gregory, told the AP that Smart accepted responsibility “without admitting the facts around what made her ‘fully responsible.’” Fryatt also noted that Smart never mentioned Gregory’s name in her statement.

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In a letter to Gov. Sununu, Smart said she is remorseful.

“I made excuses, dismissed my own involvement, and blamed everyone else but myself,” Smart wrote, adding that because she didn’t pull the trigger, she didn’t consider herself responsible, which “became comfortable in my warped logic.”

Smart was 22 years old and working as a high school media coordinator in Derry, New Hampshire, when she began having an affair with then-15-year-old sophomore Billy Flynn, who would eventually murder Smart’s 24-year-old husband. The couple was married less than a year before they started to have problems in their relationship.

On May 1, 1990, Smart came home to find her husband dead. Investigators eventually learned about the affair with Flynn, and they were both charged with her husband’s death, along with three of Flynn’s friends. Flynn and the other three have all been released after serving their sentences.