Getty Images Kristi Noem is grateful to Elon Musk for ratting out her own staff. Noem, 54, accused Department of Homeland Security employees of installing spyware on her devices and credited the tech billionaire with exposing them in an hour-long sitdown with MAGA podcaster Patrick Bet-David , released Thursday. “I’ll tell you, Patrick, even from the time I came into this office, it was—Elon and his team were extremely helpful to me,” she said. “They helped me identify that some of my own employees in my department had downloaded software on my phone and my laptop to spy on me, to record our meetings.” Read more at The Daily Beast.