DOGE member took Social Security data on a thumb drive, whistleblower alleges(www.washingtonpost.com)
56 pointsby greenburger4 hours ago4 comments
  • threecheese4 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

  • pulisse3 hours ago
    "He told another colleague ... that he expected to receive a presidential pardon if his actions were deemed to be illegal."
    • stvltvsan hour 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.
    • WarOnPrivacyan hour 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

  • theturtle19 minutes ago
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