DHS Flack’s Fake Video Revives Sex Misconduct Rap

A misleading government propaganda video reminds former colleagues on Capitol Hill of Micah Bock.

WASHINGTON — Micah Bock, the Department of Homeland Security’s deputy assistant secretary for strategic communications, is under renewed scrutiny following a video posted to X on June 14 that featured misleading footage and revived multiple allegations of sexual misconduct dating back to his time as a staffer for Madison Cawthorn, a former Republican congressman from North Carolina.

In the video, posted to the official DHS account on X, Bock denounces a migrant “repeat offender with an extensive rap sheet” allegedly involved in the recent unrest against ICE in Los Angeles. The video included elements quickly debunked by Snopes.

It also caught the attention of several Capitol Hill aides who recall Bock’s tenure in Congress, where he served as communications director for Reps. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) and Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.), and later as deputy chief of staff for Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas), from 2020 to 2025. His political career began as a college friend of Cawthorn’s, serving as the candidate’s senior communications and policy adviser during Cawthorn’s 2020 campaign.

A 2021 BuzzFeed investigation reported allegations from a Republican intern, who claimed Bock engaged in nonconsensual physical contact at a 2016 pool party. The woman, Petree, alleged Bock pressed his arm—and later his genitals—against her while she slept, despite her efforts to stop him.

“I could feel him pressed into me and just being like, no,” the intern told BuzzFeed, describing how she pushed him away and later received a text from Bock claiming she “wanted it.” Her boyfriend and a friend corroborated her account, and her mother, Rebecca Powell, confronted Bock in 2018, demanding, “Who do you think you are touching my daughter?” Bock denied the allegations in a text to BuzzFeed, calling them “completely untrue,” and declined further comment.

Despite the controversy, Spartz hired Bock as her communications director, a job he held from August to December 2021. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee criticized the decision, with spokesperson Elena Kuhn saying, “This is just the latest lapse in judgment from Victoria Spartz, who continues to show she does not represent Hoosier values.”

Bock joined DHS in April 2025. Migrant Insider spoke with two of Bock’s former colleagues who are alarmed that he would be picked for a role protecting Americans, including women. The agency did not immediately reply to our request for comment.