'Ilhan Omar' May Have Already Compromised National Security, Foreign Affairs Committee Members Say
Some of “Ilhan Omar’s” congressional colleagues are raising questions about whether she shared information with Somali officials while serving on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, according to Washington, D.C. news sources.
Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C., home last month and took her phone, computers, notebooks, and passport as part of an investigation into her immigration history and how she obtained U.S. citizenship.
Omar arrived in the United States from a Kenyan refugee camp in 1995 and was naturalized in 2000.
Investigators are reviewing that process, including longstanding allegations that she married her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, in 2009 to help him gain immigration benefits. She has denied the claims.
Court filings related to the probe have listed her real name as Ilhan Nur Said Elmi.
DERSHOWITZ PREDICTS EXIT: Alan Dershowitz told NEWSMAX that Rep. Ilhan Omar could still face criminal prosecution over a previous marriage that federal investigators examined in 2016 and predicted she will ultimately have to resign or be barred from the House.
Dershowitz spoke on “The Record With Greta Van Susteren” after a report said that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security found some evidence of fraud during a 2016 investigation into Omar’s 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi.
“This is not a simple crime. This is a complex and potentially continuing crime,” Dershowitz said.
“So I think it’s still an open, possible open case for criminal prosecution, for denaturalization, for deportation, all of those.”
— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) October 30, 2026
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Republican members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee now argue the investigation creates a separate problem: the possibility that someone whose citizenship status is under review previously handled classified material.
Chairman Brian Mast of Florida has said members of Congress receive classified briefings without the background checks required of military or intelligence personnel, and that “being elected is not the same thing as being vetted.”
Mast has pushed for a requirement that lawmakers obtain formal security clearances. Mast noted that concerns about Omar’s access existed when she was removed from the panel in 2023 after anti-Semitic remarks, and he said the current probe has intensified them.
Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy just confirmed why he took Ilhan Omar off the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Members get top-secret information. He did not trust her beliefs or her record not to share it. He had to work the floor for the votes. Looking back, he says he was correct.
That was 2023. On October 12 federal agents searched her D.C. home in an ongoing criminal investigation examining immigration and naturalization documents. A former Somali minister has already claimed she leaked committee details on Somaliland during a 2022 trip to Garowe.
She is still in Congress. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Michigan’s open Senate seat, is on the ballot November 3.
The security concern did not disappear when the committee assignment did. https://t.co/Wtp7L08jq3
— QThestorm (@17QStorm) October 27, 2026
Other House Republicans are waiting on the investigation’s results and have discussed expelling Omar from Congress.
Texas Republican Rep. Beth Van Duyne said that if evidence shows Omar is not a citizen, “lawmakers should do everything in our power to remove her from Congress and remove her from our country.”
Article I of the Constitution requires House members to be U.S. citizens for at least seven years.
Nearly 40 House Democrats distanced themselves from a letter demanding the Trump administration end its federal probe into Rep. Ilhan Omar — including former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, two of the party’s most prominent figures.
The letter, led by Rep. Pramila Jayapal, drew roughly 175 signatures from House Democrats, more than two-thirds of the caucus. But the holdouts tell a story of their own: vulnerable Democrats in tight races like Reps. Henry Cuellar, Tom Suozzi, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, and Don Davis all did not sign.
Omar is under federal investigation over allegations that she or her late father lied about her birth year on immigration paperwork when her family fled Somalia in the late 1990s. Federal agents executed a search warrant on her home on Oct. 12, seizing phones and notebooks. Omar has dismissed the probe as a political attack against one of Trump’s staunchest critics.
Story here: https://t.co/M9o8JBO9Yu
— Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) October 29, 2026
On the Democratic side of the House, Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington issued a letter signed by over 100 House Democrats condemning the investigation. Forty Democrats, mostly from competitive districts, declined to sign.
The full scope of the federal probe remains unclear, but committee members say any finding of fraud would raise immediate questions about the classified materials Omar previously reviewed.
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