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How to Counter DOGE’s Government Raiders – Private Security [1]
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Date: 2025-02-17
When the new President was asked how Musk and his representatives were able to access highly secure and sensitive government databases and records, he replied that agencies do not have very good security, so we can do it.
When the President was asked why DOGE needed access to American’s personal information such as Social Security numbers, he said, “Well, it doesn’t. But they get it very easily.”
In other words, the President’s people (even those without security clearances) are getting away with such access even though they have no right to it and such access may be illegal.
But there is a simple answer – increase security. Now one of the tactics being used by the administration is to fire government security personnel who impede such access.
But there is a simple answer to that as well – hire private security. Private security personnel will not take orders from the President. They will follow the orders of the agency officials who hired them. And in a large bureaucracy, it may be easy to obscure and difficult to trace who does such hiring. So, the President does not know who is responsible and therefore does not know which officials to fire.
But limited or no access to data will tie the hands of DOGE because all the Hi-tech boy wonders in DOGE rely on data and access to computer systems for their power.
Now this approach may not work in the long term, but it will slow down the dissolution of government and that may be all that is needed.
When the current “shock and awe” tactics hit wall after wall in their attempt to bully and intimidate government officials, the whole process will slowly grind to a halt giving time for the courts to respond to the likely illegal actions of Musk and his raiders.
This buying time strategy may be a crucial step in slowing down our government’s evolution towards dictatorship.
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