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Are Critical US Government Computer Systems Compromised? [1]
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Date: 2025-02-09
The American public doesn’t seem to understand just how serious it is that Elon Musk and his DOGE employees are reportedly being given administrator access to multiple critical US government computer systems containing classified and financial information, possibly including the US Treasury.
Democrats are patting themselves on the back after multiple judges have put some restrictions on the access that the DOGE employees have to US Treasury and payment systems. This is a delusional sense of false security. The young people that were given administrator access to these systems were not properly vetted for security clearances, and their work is being done with virtually no transparency. With administrator access, they can create backdoors into the systems, so that they can covertly get back in later when no one is paying attention and make changes that can be covered up. They can steal money or classified information that would be easy to hide if MAGA sycophants installed in the Justice Department and people in those affected government agencies conveniently don’t bother to closely monitor access in their computer systems.
Since there are now reports that the DOGE employees are also being granted administrator access to Dept of Education and potentially other systems containing classified information, Democrats need to immediately file lawsuits requiring that ALL government computers systems be restricted to read-only access to the DOGE employees. In addition, there needs to be a demand for a forensic audit of all systems to which any DOGE employee had administrator access (for any length of time) that must be done by an independent auditor to determine if any classified information was improperly handled or stolen, and to make sure no malicious code was installed that would allow unauthorized access to those systems.
This is probably one of the most serious threats to US national security we have seen in our lifetimes, and the Democrats better get serious about the hair-on-fire implications of what is going on. We better hope that these DOGE goons infiltrating our critical computer systems are not really smart if they have some dishonest intent, because it will be very difficult to detect any malware they had access to install in the systems. Additionally, Trump could promise these people a pardon if they get caught.
If Democrats were politically smart (haha, just kidding) they would be on tv screaming that Trump, Musk, and the Republicans were already looting the US Treasury using hacked accounts, and force them to prove otherwise by agreeing to a forensic audit. Accuse any Republican that refuses to agree to this of being “in on the steal”. Americans seem to love conspiracy theories, and this one may very well be true. Maybe the useless media would actually pay attention if Democrats started using some of the same tactics that have worked so well for Republicans, and it could save our democracy.
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