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... According to Berulis' disclosure, DOGE operatives arrived at the agency on March 3 in a black SUV that enjoyed a police escort. The same day, he claims, an agency assistant chief information officer (ACIO) told him that DOGE aides would be given accounts "with essentially unrestricted permission to read, copy, and alter data." Creation of such accounts was not standard operating procedure, but the ACIO said those rules must be ignored and the opening of the accounts was not to be logged. ...

"In the same conversation it was conveyed that we were to hand over any requested accounts, stay out of DOGE's way entirely, and assist them when they asked," he recounted.

Within days, Berulis says, he began to notice worrying signs, such as alerting and monitoring tools being switched off and changes to multi-factor authentication. ...