Wednesday, March 26, 2025

DOGE Can't Say Why It Needs Gov's Most Sensitive Data

An NPR review of thousands of pages of records across more than a dozen lawsuits in federal court finds an alarming pattern across agencies, where DOGE has given conflicting information about what data it has accessed, who has that access, and most importantly -- why.

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A federal judge in Maryland blocked DOGE officials from accessing data at the Social Security Administration, including Social Security numbers, medical records, driver's license numbers, bank and credit card information, tax information and more.

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-- Democracy Docket (@democracydocket.com) March 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM

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DOGE Can't Say Why It Needs Gov's Most Sensitive Data

It's a surprise! Like finding out which STDs Trump's next mail-order bride has.

#1 | Posted by censored at 2025-03-26 05:11 PM

"No matter how important or urgent the President's DOGE agenda may be, federal agencies must execute it in accordance with the law," Judge Deborah L. Boardman wrote. "That likely did not happen in this case."

In the Social Security Administration lawsuit, Hollander found several DOGE staffers "were granted access to SSA systems before their background checks were completed or their inter-agency detail agreements were finalized."

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"According to a memorandum of understanding detailing Bobba's work with SSA, the Office of Personnel Management and Education Department that was improperly redacted by OPM, Bobba agreed to do any work on Social Security data from the agency headquarters.

But an affidavit from former SSA chief of staff Tiffany Flick said that Bobba was working off-site from OPM where other people "may have also had access to this protected information," Flick wrote.

Not even lawyers for the government can account for when and how DOGE staffers received access to sensitive databases. In a Labor Department lawsuit, Judge John D. Bates notes that "defendants themselves acknowledge inconsistencies across their evidence" regarding DOGE."

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So, wonder why they are trying to get rid of real news services like NPR and PBS?

The article is professional news reporting, not State propaganda.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-26 05:12 PM

Turns out that Social Security Admin overhead is WAY UP there... ONE PERCENT.

"In 2016, the Social Security program received $958 billion in income and spent $922 billion for benefits and administrative costs, increasing the trust fund reserved by 35.2 billion. Total administrative costs amount to less than 1 percent of the funds collected each year."

www.nasi.org

IT"S almost like Trumpers are being LIED TO yet again. And they still don't notice it.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-26 06:55 PM

Dr. Ed Weir, PhD, Former Social Security Insider, Live

www.youtube.com

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-26 07:05 PM

Why???

Left to the imagination, I posit that about 99.999999% of suspicion of nefarious reasons would be correct.

Namely:

Trump's plots to destroy all semblance of a Constitutional Democracy, plank by plank, is hardly a secret any more.

#5 | Posted by Twinpac at 2025-03-27 01:38 AM

Why do we need the sensitive data?

Because ---- you that's why.

- Elmo.

#6 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-03-27 07:28 AM

Why do we need the sensitive data?

Because ---- you that's why.

- Elmo.

#6 | POSTED BY NIXON

LOL!

It's a State Secret!

Like who and why you being deported today.

They'd tell ya but then they'd have to kill ya.

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-27 12:19 PM

Why don't all of you watch the interview with the DOGE members and then tell us what they said that you disagree with or isn't good for this country. I'll give you a preview of the responses from the usual:
"I can't watch Hitler and his brown shirts".
"---- Musk!".
"They all lie, they're going to gut social security!"

#8 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-03-28 03:58 PM

"Why don't all of you watch the interview with the DOGE members and then tell us what they said that you disagree with or isn't good for this country."

Got a transcript?

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-28 03:59 PM

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

www.wired.com

The incel clown posse is causing irreparable harm.

#10 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-28 04:02 PM

#10: www.thenation.com

#11 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-03-28 04:07 PM

"They all lie, they're going to gut social security!"

They are telling the truth when they say they are going to gut Social Security.

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-28 04:15 PM

The incel clown posse is causing irreparable harm.

#10 | POSTED BY REINHEITSGEBOT AT 2025-03-28 04:02 PM | FLAG:

Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner.

#13 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-03-28 05:35 PM

#12. Tell me where they said they were going to gut SS. Their plan is to save it. Again, if you are brave listen to their answer and let us know what is wrong with it.

#14 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-03-28 05:38 PM

"Tell me where they said they were going to gut SS."

Musk eyes Social Security and benefit programs for cuts while claiming widespread fraud
apnews.com

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-28 05:47 PM

#12. Tell me where they said they were going to gut SS. Their plan is to save it. Again, if you are brave listen to their answer and let us know what is wrong with it.

Posted by fishpaw

If they wanted to save SS, they'd act to ensure its solvency instead of cutting government to the bone - and hurting the rest of us - to justify renewing the Trump tax cuts from his first term. The benefits of which go mostly to the top.

Instead, they're slashing the IRS, reducing revenues, and all the while moaning about debt and systemic deficits they created with tax cuts in Bush's and Trump's first terms.

#16 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-03-28 06:19 PM

#16 I know you will need a support gerbil but actually watch the presser.

#17 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-03-28 07:28 PM

= actually watch the presser.

Cultist Believes Cult Propaganda! Video at 11:00!

#18 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-28 07:40 PM

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