The younger brother of left-wing streamer and Democratic surrogate Hasan Piker spent more than a decade as a Boeing aerospace engineer with security clearances, working on some of the most sensitive military aircraft in the U.S. arsenal, raising questions no one in government appears to have answered.
Murat Piker, an aerospace engineer who departed Boeing earlier this year, listed work on the VC-25B, the next-generation Air Force One, the E-6B nuclear command-and-control plane known as the "doomsday plane," the E-3 Sentry AWACS surveillance aircraft, and Boeing's undersea Navy drone program on his LinkedIn profile, the Washington Free Beacon reported. His profile also states he holds "active Security Clearances," and a person familiar with his work history described the clearance level as top secret.
That résumé would be unremarkable on its own. Thousands of engineers hold similar clearances at defense contractors. What makes Murat Piker's case unusual is who his brother is, and what his brother says in public.
Hasan Piker is one of the most-watched political streamers in the country and an increasingly prominent surrogate for Democratic candidates in the 2026 midterm elections. He has campaigned for Abdul El-Sayed and Francesca Hong. He has also compiled a long record of inflammatory public statements that would ordinarily disqualify someone from polite political company, let alone from proximity to classified defense programs.
Hasan has declared that "America deserved 9/11." He told the liberal podcast Pod Save America in April 2026 that he is "a lesser evil voter and therefore I would vote for Hamas over Israel every single time." On a Twitch stream with Ethan Klein in May 2025, he said he does "not have a single issue with Hezbollah as a form of militancy trying to incur penalties on the genocidal state of Israel." Asked on a podcast in June 2025 to name his favorite flag, he answered: "Hezbollah."
He has praised Mao Zedong as "one of the great leaders of this world." He called Ultra-Orthodox Jews "inbred." After the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, Hasan's reaction was, by his own description, "not so negative," because Thompson "was engaging in a tremendous amount of social murder" as a health insurance executive.
None of this is fringe rumor. These are statements Hasan Piker made on camera, on podcasts, and in interviews, the same platforms where his brother Murat regularly appears as a co-host and companion. Hasan's remarks on Israel and designated terrorist organizations have drawn sustained criticism, but the security implications of his brother's clearances have gone largely unexamined until now.
Murat Piker's LinkedIn profile describes his role as "Space Vehicle Structures Design" at Boeing Defense & Space. His own summary states that his "background includes significant experience at Boeing Defense & Space, where I led mechanical design and integration for next-generation satellite structures, managed high-pressure anomaly investigations, and defined structural interfaces across subsystems." He holds a master's degree in aerospace engineering from UCLA.
The programs listed on his profile read like a catalog of America's most guarded aviation assets. The E-6B is the Navy's airborne nuclear command post, the plane designed to maintain communications with the country's ballistic missile submarine fleet in the event of a nuclear conflict. The E-3 Sentry AWACS provides long-range radar surveillance and battle management. The E-7 is its planned replacement. The XLUUV, also called the Boeing Orca, is an unmanned undersea vehicle built for the Navy. And the CST-100 Starliner is Boeing's crew capsule for NASA missions.
Then there is Air Force One. Boeing received orders for two new presidential aircraft, the VC-25A and VC-25B, in 2018 during President Trump's first term, with delivery scheduled for 2028. The program has run late and billions of dollars over budget. Press accounts have cited security clearance issues for workers as one reason for the delays.
Murat told Rolling Stone in an August 9, 2026, profile of his brother: "I actually worked on VC-25B a little bit." Hasan, sitting nearby at his $3.3 million Los Angeles home, joked in response: "Yeah, on the toilet. Don't let him act like he did anything cool."
But a source familiar with Murat's work at Boeing told the Free Beacon that Murat "was not assigned to the VC-25B program and lacked the proper security clearance" for it. The Free Beacon noted that the Air Force One program "is widely reported to have pulled in engineers from across Boeing and its contractors," which could account for peripheral involvement without formal assignment. The conflict between Murat's own statement and the source's account remains unresolved.
A Boeing spokesperson refused to address Murat Piker's specific work history:
"As a matter of privacy and security, Boeing does not disclose information about the specific work statement of former employees."
The spokesperson added that "Boeing employees are only granted and maintain security clearances after successfully completing the rigorous background check and vetting process administered by the United States government." Boeing said it "relies on the U.S. government to determine who has security clearances."
That answer pushes the question to the federal government, which, as far as the public record shows, has not addressed it at all. No U.S. government agency has publicly reviewed or commented on whether Murat Piker's clearances were ever examined in light of his brother's repeated public expressions of sympathy for Hamas, Hezbollah, and Mao Zedong, or his declaration that America deserved the worst terrorist attack in its history.
Whether Murat's clearances remain active after his departure from Boeing is also unknown. The Free Beacon reported that he left the company "earlier this year" of his own volition. His current employer has not been identified.
Murat Piker is not a background figure in his brother's public life. He regularly appears on Hasan's social media channels. The two have streamed together from Japan and France. Murat accompanied Hasan to events. He married in September 2025 and honeymooned in Africa. He lives in a $1.24 million apartment in Culver City, in the Los Angeles area.
During a May 2023 stream, the brothers watched the launch of the ViaSat-3 F1 satellite, a project Murat said he had spent years working on. When Hasan cracked a joke about SpaceX botching the launch, Murat cut in: "Don't put things like that out into the universe. It's going to be a success." The two spent roughly 90 minutes of the same stream discussing incel culture, which Murat described as "emo for people who don't get laid."
Hasan has acknowledged the tension between his politics and his brother's career. In an August 2022 livestream, he pushed back on critics: "Do you see Murat on Twitter saying 'yeah I work at Boeing and have no problem with that.'" He added: "You think he doesn't want to work for NASA? He loves NASA. He wants to work for NASA."
In a separate video from April 2023, Hasan responded to a commenter who mocked Murat's engineer salary by comparison to Hasan's streaming income. Hasan's reply was blunt: "You will never make as much money as I do for the rest of your f, king life no matter how hard you try. Shut the f, k up."
The dynamic is revealing. Hasan treats his brother's defense work as a private matter, something Murat does quietly while Hasan builds a public brand around statements that would raise immediate red flags in any standard security clearance adjudication. Democratic candidates have faced pressure to distance themselves from Hasan over his remarks, and some have refused.
Murat Piker's LinkedIn profile has itself undergone revision. An earlier archived version of the profile noted that he completed primary and secondary schooling in Turkey before attending Rutgers University in New Jersey as an undergraduate, the same school Hasan attended. The current version of the profile no longer includes the detail about Turkish schooling.
The removal is unexplained. Both brothers were born in New Jersey and educated partly in Turkey. Whether the edit was cosmetic or deliberate, it occurred against a backdrop in which Hasan's political prominence, and his role as a Democratic campaign surrogate, has drawn increasing scrutiny.
That scrutiny has fractured parts of the Democratic coalition. Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville threatened to leave the party over Hasan Piker's growing influence, a warning that Hasan and his allies brushed aside.
Even a former Biden press secretary crossed party lines over the refusal of Hasan's allied candidates to condemn his 9/11 remarks. The controversy has not slowed Hasan's involvement in Democratic politics, but it has exposed a party willing to tolerate rhetoric that would end careers in any other context.
Federal security clearance adjudications are supposed to examine an applicant's associations, foreign contacts, and potential vulnerabilities to coercion or influence. An engineer's immediate family member publicly praising Hamas, Hezbollah, and Mao while declaring that America deserved 9/11 would, under any plain reading of the adjudicative guidelines, warrant at minimum a review.
Whether that review ever happened is unknown. Boeing says it defers to the government. The government has said nothing. Murat Piker's own LinkedIn still claims "active Security Clearances", a phrase that, if accurate, means the federal government either examined his brother's public record and found no concern, or never looked.
Neither answer inspires confidence. A system that grants top-secret access to the man who builds the doomsday plane while his brother livestreams praise for designated terrorist organizations is a system that owes the public an explanation, or an overhaul.
