According to a whistleblower, a former DOGE employee with access to highly sensitive Social Security databases planned on sharing data with his private employer. As a result, reports the Washington Post, the Social Security Administration (SSA) is investigating what would be among the biggest security breaches in the agency's 80-year history. In letters from the agency's acting inspector general, Congress and the Government Accountability Office were notified of the disclosure and investigation, and the latter has launched its own audit of DOGE's data access. Per the whistleblower, an ex-DOGE software engineer bragged to coworkers that he not only possessed two highly restricted databases containing information for some 500 million Americans both dead and alive, but that he had one database on a thumb drive that he planned on using to provide data to a private company.
Donald Trump has appointed Erika Kirk, the widow of murdered rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, to a key advisory board of the US Air Force Academy. The 37-year-old joins a number of other loyalists to the president on the 16-member panel of the academy's board of visitors, which according to its website "inquires into the morale, discipline, curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, academic methods and other matters" of the Colorado Springs military training facility.
Approximately 150 American troops have been wounded during the United States' conflict with Iran, Reuters reported on Tuesday. "The figure has not been previously reported and is far higher than the Pentagon's publicly disclosed figure of 8 seriously wounded U.S. forces," noted reporters Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that the number of service members wounded was in that "ballpark" during a briefing on Tuesday afternoon.
A former Missouri House speaker was sentenced Monday to 21 months in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud for misusing federal COVID-19 relief funds for his personal benefit. read more
The Pentagon spent more money in September"the end of the 2025 fiscal year"than it had in any other year since 2008. But a good chunk of the budget wasn't used for anything that could be considered a pertinent military expense. The Defense Department burned through $93 billion that month alone, signing checks left and right in order to dry up its congressionally allocated budget, according to a recent analysis by the government watchdog Open the Books. Some of the frivolous September purchases made under Secretary Pete Hegseth's stewardship include a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff's home, $5.3 million for Apple devices such as the new iPad, and an astronomical amount of shellfish, including $2 million for Alaskan king crab and $6.9 million worth of lobster tail. (Lobster tail is apparently a favorite of Hegseth's Pentagon"the department spent more than $7.4 million total on the luxury item in March, May, June, and October.)
Crystal Meth Rumsfeld's Defense Department Blew $22M On Steak and Lobster in a Single Month
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