CAUGHT OUTDHS communications lead Tricia McLaughlin made the false claim over a video that went viral. A top official at the Department of Homeland Security has been caught posting inaccurate information about the violent arrest of an American teen girl.Last month, the Daily Beast exposed how Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin—the most senior communications official to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem—had falsely smeared a mom who lost her baby while locked up by ICE as a wanted killer.