House Democrats expand probe of about NLRB whistleblower claims : NPR
The DOGE team may have taken data related to union organization and work complaints and has hidden its tracks, according to a denunciator.
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The DOGE team may have taken data related to union organization and work complaints and has hidden its tracks, according to a denunciator.
Charlotte Gomez for NPR
The best Democrat of the Chamber Supervisory Committee is asking Microsoft to share information on the account of an efficiency employee of the Ministry of Efficiency on a website belonging to Microsoft which would have hosted what the legislator called “tailor -made code” designed to delete data from a sensitive case management database used by the National Labor Relations Board.
In a shared letter for the first time with NPR and addressed to the CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella, the representative Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., The acting classification of the government surveillance and reform committee, cites NPR reports and a disclosure of denunciation on DOGE activities in his request for files “as work in progress for the Democrats of the Committee.”
“The denunciator also explained how responsible individuals [affiliated with DOGE] have tried to hide their activities, obstruct surveillance and protect themselves from responsibility, including deleting the system newspapers and opening doors back in the NLRB case management system to send massive amounts of data outside the agency, “wrote Lynch.” Potentially deleting NLRB data and saving the code for being returned to the NLRB platform and the code for Microsoft. Given the property of GitHub by Microsoft, I request information and documents in Microsoft possession concerning this incident. “”
Demand is the last stage of the efforts of government surveillance dogs and the Democrats of the Chamber to investigate the explosive disclosure made by NLRB Whistleblower Daniel Berulis and the exclusive NPR reports which found around 10 gigabytes of data that left the NXGEN case management system before an increase in outgoing traffic which left the network itself.
A screenshot of the GitHub public account of the engineer of Doge Jordan Wick which shows “nxgenbdoorextract”. The name itself suggests that Wick could have designed a stolen door, or “bdooor”, to extract files from the internal case management system from the NLRB.
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Berulis noticed a project on the Github account of the staff member of Doge Jordan Wick entitled “Nxgenbdoorextract” which was made private before being able to investigate more. NPR was unable to recover the code of the benchmark, but several cybersecurity experts who examined the conclusions of Berulis said that the name suggests that Wick could have conceived a stolen door in the system.
Wick did not respond to requests for previous comments from NPR. One day after NPR reported on the disclosure and denunciation allegations, DOGE also awarded two staff members to the NLRB to work “part -time for several months”.
The Democrats of the Surveillance of the Chamber, who do not have the power of assignment without the approval of the Republican majority, also asked the daycare dogs the NLRB and the Labor Department to investigate the depot of denunciation. More than 50 Democrats from the Congressional Congression Caucus also signed a letter asking the NLRB more information on Doge’s activities at the Independent Agency, which investigates and judges complaints concerning unfair labor and protects the rights of American workers to train unions.
“These revelations of the report report are very worrying for a number of reasons,” the legislators wrote in the letter from the interim lawyer general of NLRB, William Cowen. “If it is true, these revelations describe an imprudent approach to the management of sensitive personal information of workers, which could leave these workers exposed to reprisals for having started a legally protected union activity.” Last month, the Inspector General’s office of the NLRB launched an investigation into the affirmations.
