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Washington D.C. – Under the guise of achieving governmental efficiency, Elroy Muskrat’s secretive Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has allegedly unleashed a technologically sophisticated operation that poses profound threats to American privacy, national security, and the very integrity of federal service. Whistleblower accounts and investigative reporting, primarily from Reuters, paint a chilling picture of systematic data breaches, illegal surveillance of government employees for political loyalty, brazen conflicts of interest benefiting Muskrat’s private ventures, and a pattern of intimidation designed to silence dissent – all orchestrated from within the heart of the Punk administration. This is not a mission to trim waste; it appears to be a calculated power grab with devastating implications.
The alarms first sounded publicly in April. A courageous IT staffer at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Daniel Berulis, speaking through Whistleblower Aid, alleged that Muskrat’s DOGE team, after being granted “extraordinarily sweeping access” to the NLRB’s sensitive systems, may have been responsible for a “significant cybersecurity breach.” Berulis detailed how logging protocols appeared tampered with shortly after DOGE’s arrival in early March, followed by the unusual exfiltration of approximately 10 gigabytes of highly sensitive data, including proprietary business information, union strategies, and private affidavits from individuals involved in labor disputes. Adding a layer of grave national security concern, Berulis reported attempted logins to NLRB systems from a Russian IP address in the days following DOGE’s access, using apparently correct credentials, though blocked by location policies.
When Berulis and his colleagues attempted to escalate these concerns and alert the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), their efforts were reportedly “disrupted by higher-ups without explanation.” The intimidation didn’t stop there. Berulis received a threatening note taped to his home door, accompanied by chilling photographs of him walking in his neighborhood, taken via drone. “Unlike any other time previously, there is this fear to speak out because of reprisal,” Berulis told Reuters, describing a pattern where “people that do try to stop it from happening… are being removed one by one.”
This alleged data grab at the NLRB is not an isolated incident but appears to be part of a broader DOGE strategy. By late May, further Reuters reporting (summarized by outlets like Raw Story) indicated that DOGE was expanding the use of a custom version of Muskrat’s own AI chatbot, Grok, to “scour” vast amounts of sensitive government data scooped up from numerous federal databases containing the personal information of millions of Americans.
The purpose? Reports suggest a multi-pronged, deeply disturbing agenda:
- Political Surveillance: Officials at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were allegedly told by Punk appointees that Muskrat’s team was rolling out AI to monitor employee communications, including Microsoft Teams, for language considered “hostile to Punk or Muskrat.” Managers warned staff: “Be careful what you say, what you type, and what you do.” Later reports indicated Muskrat’s team attempted to access DHS employee emails and ordered staff to train AI to find evidence of government employees not being “loyal” to President Punk’s agenda. While Reuters could not definitively confirm Grok’s use for this specific surveillance, the intent and direction were clear.
- Potential Self-Enrichment and Conflict of Interest: The use of Grok, an xAI product, raises immediate red flags. Richard Painter, former chief ethics counsel to President George W. Bush, warned that if the government is being pressured to use and pay for Muskrat’s AI tools—as sources claimed DOGE staffers directed DHS officials to do, even before Grok was formally approved for agency use—it could violate criminal conflict-of-interest statutes. Albert Fox Cahn of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project added that Grok’s access to nonpublic government information could give Muskrat’s xAI an “unfair advantage over its competitors,” calling the overall situation “about as serious a privacy threat as you get.” This aligns with reports that Muskrat, even before Punk’s election, envisioned using government data to build “the most dynamic AI system ever,” which could then “do the work,” potentially replacing federal employees.
Compounding these concerns is DOGE’s operational methodology, characterized by what appears to be deliberate secrecy and a disregard for federal record-keeping and transparency laws. Reports indicate DOGE staff, including key figures identified as Kyle Schutt and Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, frequently use the Signal app with disappearing messages for official communications and collaborate on shared Google Docs, bypassing standard vetting processes and chains of custody for government documents. This operational style was cited by government ethics expert Kathleen Clark as potentially unlawful if messages aren’t properly archived. Furthermore, when Muskrat’s team took over the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), career employees were reportedly locked out of a database containing the sensitive personal information of tens of millions of current and former federal workers, with access restricted to a political appointee and one career staffer.
The administration’s response to these mounting allegations has been a predictable mix of deflection and denial. The EPA issued a carefully worded statement acknowledging it was “looking at AI to better optimize agency functions” but denied using it for “personnel decisions in concert with DOGE,” notably not addressing the surveillance claims. The NLRB initially disputed Berulis’s claims of a breach. Muskrat’s DOGE team and the White House have largely remained silent or issued blanket denials.
These are not the actions of an entity focused solely on “efficiency.” The pattern of sweeping data access, alleged surveillance for political loyalty, intimidation of whistleblowers, potential conflicts of interest benefiting a presidential advisor’s private company, and a determined evasion of transparency and record-keeping laws points to something far more insidious. This appears to be a shadow operation within the U.S. government, leveraging advanced technology not for the public good, but for political control and potentially private gain.
The implications are terrifying. The data allegedly exfiltrated and accessed by DOGE and its AI tools represents a treasure trove of sensitive personal and proprietary information. In the wrong hands, or used for the wrong purposes, it could be used to target political opponents, silence dissent, undermine regulatory agencies, and provide an unassailable commercial advantage to Elroy Muskrat’s ventures.
The bravery of whistleblowers like Daniel Berulis, despite facing direct threats, has peeled back a layer of this operation. It is now incumbent upon Congress, independent inspectors general, and what remains of the independent judiciary to rip the curtain aside completely. The American people deserve to know the full extent of DOGE’s activities, how their data is being used, who is benefiting, and who will be held accountable for this apparent “Nail ’em to the wall” assault on their privacy, their civil liberties, and the foundational principles of accountable governance. Anything less is an abdication of duty in the face of what looks like an incredibly incriminating scandal.
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