Many have accused DOGE of ransacking the government and being a national security threat. Recently, DOGE proved them right.
We are mere weeks into the Trump presidency and the efficiency that it is destroying literally everything has been pretty astonishing. Corruption and incompetence have been defining features of the presidency. A big component of the death, destruction, and chaos is shadow president, Elon Musk. The unelected Musk created “DOGE”, an organization with criminals in their ranks, to basically take over government and start ransacking the place. This unelected body has, among other things, obtained access to sensitive employee information and have started basically dictating what goes on within various critical government departments. Recently, we noted how Musk, through DOGE, has been cancelling government contracts while happily helping himself to government contracts for his own personal companies. It is arguably one of the most brazen corruption schemes ever seen in living memory.
While all of this is blatantly corrupt, no one ever said it was being executed in a particularly smart manner. While DOGE is opaque with their process, only releasing what they want to release to the public and dodging accountability by ensuring their communications aren’t covered by FOIA, it seems that they have ended up leaking classified information through their website – cementing the organization as a national security risk. From Huffington Post:
Elon Musk’s team at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has posted classified information about the size and staff of a U.S. intelligence agency on its new website, raising bigger concerns about where Musk’s programmers got this information and what they are doing with it.
DOGE, which President Donald Trump created to purportedly root out waste in the federal government, launched its website on Wednesday night with a feature allowing users to “trace your tax dollars through the bureaucracy.” People can navigate through all federal agencies and offices for details about their head counts, budgets and average ages of employees.
The website states in tiny print at the bottom that its database excludes information from U.S. intelligence agencies.
But an easy search shows that DOGE’s database provides details on the National Reconnaissance Office, the federal agency that designs, builds and maintains U.S. intelligence satellites. Not only are NRO’s budgets and head counts classified, but the prospect of Musk’s tech team meddling in sensitive personnel information is setting off alarms for some in the intelligence community.
“DOGE just posted secret NOFORN info on their website about [intelligence community] headcount, so currently people are scrambling to check if their info has been accessed,” said one Defense Intelligence Agency employee, who requested anonymity to avoid retaliation from senior leaders.
The revelations is no doubt fantastic news for foreign adversaries who are actively trying to destroy America. If they weren’t actively hoovering up the classified information before from the DOGE website, they certainly are now. Some probably won’t hesitate to use that data against America at a later time.
Either way, DOGE has officially become a national security threat if they weren’t already. That is pretty clear at this point. It’s not really surprising that this is happening, really. Given the many other disasters already taking place, such at the destruction of international ties among other things, it’s just one more nightmare gripping America among a whole massive list of government nightmares going on right now. Maybe it’s not a good idea for other nations to share information with the US at this point in time.
