DOGE member took Social Security data on a thumb drive, whistleblower alleges

69 pointsposted 7 hours ago
by greenburger
(washingtonpost.com)

7 Comments

threecheese

7 hours ago

My conspiracy-theory assumption has been that DOGE seeded X.ai, and the newer govt contracts are going to continue that. X.ai won’t need to be as smart as GPT7 when the contract for killbots goes to RFP, it’ll already know everything about you including location and weaknesses.

Kidding with the killbot comment; more likely it’ll be used for insurance denial, employment screening, benefits and taxes etc

pulisse

6 hours ago

"He told another colleague ... that he expected to receive a presidential pardon if his actions were deemed to be illegal."

stvltvs

4 hours ago

We really need to put limits on the pardon power. It's clearly enabling corruption. Ford should never have pardoned Nixon. It's been a slide down the slippery slope ever since.

kermatt

2 hours ago

Maybe a single person should not be able to override the decision of a jury + judge. Acting in opposition to the law because you expect to be pardoned indicates that the process may be flawed

Both of the recent presidents have made some very questionable pardons.

WarOnPrivacy

4 hours ago

> "He told another colleague ... that he expected to receive a presidential pardon if his actions were deemed to be illegal."

Yeah. It was an alarming supposition because it wasn't unreasonable or delusional.

It's a side effect of SCotUS gifting an unprecedented 90% win rate to this administration (40%-65% for prev admins). The court is effectively enabling this exec branch while protecting it from the consequences of it's actions.

    The [Social Security] agency has historically limited access to sensitive 
    data to prevent it from leaking. But the Supreme Court had granted DOGE 
    members "unfettered" access to Social Security data last summer
We've never before known SCotUS justices like this - ones who are openly, fiercely loyal to a PotUS.

ref:https://www.courtaccountability.org/shadow-docket-analysis