[Breitbart] Elon Musk’s aides have locked career government bureaucrats out of computer systems that operate a federal government human resources agency.Musk, the owner of social media platform X and the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency — which is tasked with slashing government waste, fraud, and abuse — installed allies at the government resources agency known as the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
Reuters, citing government officials who spoke to the outlet anonymously, said career bureaucrats have had their access to governments systems revoked.
“We have no visibility into what they are doing with the computer and data systems,” one official said.
“That is creating great concern. There is no oversight. It creates real cybersecurity and hacking implications,” the official claimed.
| The unnamed career official is mistaken. The DOGE team is the oversight, sent in when the career officials refused to let them see their systems without being forced. This is the Find Out point of this particular campaign. |
Musk’s allies have figuratively set up camp at the OPM headquarters so they work round the clock:
| Actually, for once setting up camp is indeed literally what they are doing. /pedant |
A team including current and former employees of Musk assumed command of OPM on Jan. 20, the day Trump took office. They have moved sofa beds onto the fifth floor of the agency’s headquarters, which contains the director’s office and can only be accessed with a security badge or a security escort, one of the OPM employees said.
The sofa beds have been installed so the team can work around the clock, the employee said.
“It feels like a hostile takeover,” one employee lamented.
| It literally is a hostile takeover, my dear, which should have been unnecessary, but again we’re at the FO stage of the proceedings. |
DOGE posted to X in late January, “Answering the most common question about the Deferred Resignation offer. Can take the vacation you always wanted, or just watch movies and chill, while receiving your full government pay and benefits.”
| Related: Sam Faddis at AND Magazine reports how it got to the point where the DOGE team are camped out in the OPM office |
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