Elon Musk's Friends Have Infiltrated Another Government Agency

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Hat tip, Joe.My.God.

Musk Cronies Infiltrate Federal Technology Agency
February 1, 2025

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MAKENA KELLY ZOË SCHIFFER
POLITICS
JAN 31, 2025 6:27 PM

Elon Musk’s Friends Have Infiltrated Another Government Agency

Elon Musk’s former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access General Services Administration tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources say.

Elon Musk’s minions—from trusted sidekicks to random college students and former Musk company interns—have taken over the General Services Administration, a critical government agency that manages federal offices and technology. Already, the team is attempting to use White House security credentials to gain unusual access to GSA tech, deploying a suite of new AI software, and recreating the office in X’s image, according to leaked documents obtained by WIRED.

Some of the same people who helped Musk take over Twitter more than two years ago are now registered as official GSA employees. Nicole Hollander, who slept in Twitter HQ as an unofficial member of Musk’s transition team, has high-level agency access and an official government email address, according to documents viewed by WIRED. Hollander’s husband, Steve Davis, also slept in the office. He has now taken on a leading role in Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Thomas Shedd, the recently installed director of the Technology Transformation Services within GSA, worked as a software engineer at Tesla for eight years. Edward Coristine, who previously interned at Neuralink, has been onboarded along with Ethan Shaotran, a Harvard senior who is developing his own OpenAI-backed scheduling assistant and participated in an xAI hackathon.

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[Lonestarblue]

1. Once Musk and his cabal have access to all government systems, he can shut down the US at will.

Trump has given this unelected man, whom voters did not choose, the power to just stop the functioning of the federal government on a whim. Once in control of the technology, Musk can do anything. Shut off Social Security checks. Stop Medicare payments to providers. Shut down Medicaid funds to states and TANF funds to the poor. Stop all IRS refunds. Pay only government workers Trump wants to keep, like ICE. Most foreign aid has already been stopped, but stopping research into viral diseases means another possible pandemic with no vaccine. NIH research has been paused, with researchers not knowing whether their ongoing research will be funded. Musk can shut down power grids, airports, trains, and the Metro in DC.

I don’t believe that Trump will allow Musk to do all this, but the fact that one man will have the power to essentially turn off the whole federal government should frighten anyone. I do think Trump will use this power to bludgeon blue states to comply with whatever he wants from them.

[gab13by13]

4. Trump won't, can't do shit to Musk,

Musk is Putin's shadow and he is keeping Trump on a short leash.

We are a colony of Russia.

[TommyT139]

5. Especially if...

...Elon had something to do with the suspicious "sweep" of battleground states.

You think Musk didn't keep receipts?

And really, this chain of legalized hacking of federal IT systems lends far more weight to the theory that Musk tweaked Trump's results.

[bronxiteforever]

2. Have any of these people and college

students been through any sort of background clearance? Probably not because Sieg Heil Musk isn’t going to let national security stand in the way of looting and corruption.

The Country’s safety is being dismantled on the quick. If not stopped death and destruction will follow through failed security measures, safety rules abrogated and additionally foreign and domestic terrorism will have an huge opening. We are on the brink of a national suicide.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. Hahaha! "Background clearance." That's so funny! NT

[TommyT139]

6. Among the many exec orders...

...was one granting Trump the ability to give high level security clearance to whomever he wants.

And the "Trump" in that sentence should be understood as whoever is actually doing the hiring and firing...because there is some seriously granular knowledge about who does what. (Referenced by Rachel Friday night, I think.)

[2naSalit]

7. The...

Gestapo and SS have arrived.