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CousinIT

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Thu Apr 17, 2025, 12:38 PM Apr 17

The Department of Government Efficiency Is a Lie -- And It Might Destroy Us All

https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-department-of-government-efficiency-fbd

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This isn’t cheap or even ordinary corruption: this is the sort of thing that happens in Third World countries, like when Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines used cronies and spies to infiltrate government agencies and neutralize political opponents, or when Vladimir Putin installed former KGB allies into key Russian institutions to crush whistleblowers and rig judicial outcomes, or when Guatemala’s President Jimmy Morales dismantled anti-corruption agencies and handed sensitive state information to business elites.

It’s the sort of corruption that destroys democracies from the inside out.

Berulis risked his career, his safety, even his life to reveal what’s happening inside Elon Musk’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE — a name that sounds innocuous enough, until you understand what they’re actually doing.

DOGE, according to Berulis’ bombshell disclosure, managed to breach the National Labor Relations Board’s computer systems and extract what he described as “the equivalent to a section of the New York Public Library” in sensitive data. This isn’t just bureaucratic overreach — it’s a digital smash-and-grab, right out of the authoritarian playbook. . . .
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The Department of Government Efficiency Is a Lie -- And It Might Destroy Us All (Original Post) CousinIT Apr 17 OP
Agree republianmushroom Apr 17 #1
"Efficiency" is a relative term. dchill Apr 17 #2
Putin's got access to our systems now Mr. Mustard 2023 Apr 17 #3
DOG EE is nothing more than a direct line to Beijing and Moscow. flashman13 Apr 17 #4
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