The entire country is being hacked by its own government.

 

Jeffrey St. Clair>>

+ The entire country is being hacked by its own government. In the latest intrusion, the Washington Post’s Jeff Stein reports that DOGE sought access to a sensitive database kept by the federal child-support office, which contains income info, Social Security numbers for nearly all U.S. workers.

+ What DOGE is doing goes far beyond the mass surveillance and data collection of emails & phone calls that Snowden exposed. DOGE–a quasi-government outfit of questionable legality–is collecting literally everything about you: SS numbers, mother’s maiden name, home address, bank accounts, employment records, tax records, health records, service records, government payments, all going into the hands and servers of outside contractors with no one keeping tabs on where they end up or how they’ll be used…

+ One member of the DOGE wrecking crew is making $195,000 a year, the maximum allowed for any federal employee after decades of service.

+ At a contentious White House meeting last week, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy confronted Trump and Musk over the DOGE wrecking crew’s plan to fire air traffic controllers: “What am I supposed to do? I have multiple plane crashes to deal with now and your people want me to fire air traffic controllers?”

+ Has DOGE cancelled a single dollar of any of Musk’s billions in contracts with the federal government? You’d think they’d cancel at least one already expiring contract, as a purely performative gesture…(even as he racked up twice as many no-bid deals.