Armed Guards and Muscle Milk: Senate Investigation Reveals DOGE Takeover Details
“DOGE does not make the government more effective – it puts Gary Peters on Thursday, an American Democratic Senator of Michigan and member of HSGAC, in a press release.” They bypass cybersecurity protections, escape surveillance and endanger the personal data of the Americans. We cannot allow this shaded operation to continue without control while Identity, economic disturbance and permanent damage.
When visiting the GSA offices, the committees of the committees saw “business network infrastructure diagrams” on a whiteboard, but GSA officials blocked their point of view “with their bodies,” said the report.
The report also claims that GSA officials “refused to show the infrastructure of Starlink staff”, telling them to plan a follow -up visit, then denying the request to do so. The GSA installed Starlink terminals, the Satellite Musk company, about a month after the inauguration. At the time, GSA staff warned that this posed a significant security risk and expressed its exercise that the terminals could allow Doge to siphon the agency data. According to the report, the GSA officials “could not even confirm that the Starlink terminal was configured with basic security parameters recommended by Starlink itself”, which means that the staff members “fear that all the data sent or received on the GSA Starlink system and other places can be an easy target for foreign opponents”.
Starlink terminals have also been installed in the White House.
It was not the only apparent effort to bypass government policies and data protections. A former OPM employee allegedly allegedly in an interview with investigators that “even before the inauguration, the new administration has expressed” strong interest “for electronic mail servers and the centralization of communications.” According to the employee, Greg Hogan, the incoming IOC, “had asked the OPM staff if he could deploy an AI system in an outdoor cloud environment, an environment that would allow monitoring of the agency and fewer guarantees.” (The anonymous spokesperson for the OPM refused to comment on everything that happened before the inauguration. “The IOC has asked many technical questions in the context of its role,” they said in response to a question on Hogan. “All his work at the OPM has complied with the security and regulatory requirements of the agency.”)
At the SSA, the investigators found that access to the areas that Doge worked was controlled by armed guards. It was a measure taken, according to Dan Callahan, assistant commissioner for the management of buildings and installations, because the members of the DOGE were “concerned about their safety”. After a more in -depth investigation, the investigators found that this concern came from “communication with an SSA employee who” understood the curse “.”
At the GSA, “the armed guards have checked access to work and living spaces [and] The rooms were locked, “said the report, while visiting investigators at the OPM was made in the armed guard (” the “armed guards” were the normal security teams who ensure the security of the OPM office, “said the anonymous OPM spokesperson, citing the visit of the visit during the seizure of the secure areas with sensible information.).
Following the survey, the report calls on the Trump administration to end all DOGE activities, to all revoke access to its representatives who maintain personally identifiable information and oblige agencies to provide evidence that access is in accordance with existing confidentiality regulations. Investigators also require the SSA to closed the Cloud environment in which DOGE has downloaded the NUMPIDENT data.
The White House, the GSA and the SSA did not immediately respond to the requests for comments from Wired.
