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Jane Norman
@janenorman.bsky.social
You've got to read this one. "Personnel from the Musk-created office physically tried to access the USAID headquarters in Washington, DC, and were stopped. The DOGE personnel demanded to be let in and threatened to call US Marshals to be allowed access, two of the sources said."
NEW: Two top security officials at USAID were put on admin leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Musk’s DOGE to access systems at the agency, even after DOGE personnel threatened to call law enforcement, multiple sources familiar told CNN www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...
February 2, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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CNN further reports: On Sunday, in response to CNN’s report, Musk said that “USAID is a criminal organization.”"Time for it to die,” he posted on X. It was one of many posts and reposts by the X owner attacking the agency on Sunday.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire is the top Dem on Senate Foreign Relations. Wall Street Journal reporter Alex Ward says on X she told him this situation is "incredibly serious and unprecedented" & a "bipartisan" group of senators will discuss what to do tomorrow when Senate is back
Gregory Meeks of NY/top Dem on House Foreign Affairs. Dem appropriators: Brian Schatz of Hawaii/Senate. Lois Frankel of Florida/House. They & Shaheen wrote a letter Friday to the acting administrator w/"deep concern" on AID before this episode: www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
And now a new letter today from Senate Foreign Relations Dems: "The potential access of sensitive, even classified, files" ...& incident raise "deep concerns about the protection and safeguarding of matters related to U.S. national security."
Full text here www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
“We request an immediate update about the access of USAID’s headquarters," Senate Foreign Relations Dems write, "including whether the individuals who accessed the headquarters were authorized to be there and by whom," whether they had any security clearances, what info they got hold of
They also point out USAID was established by Congress "as an independent agency, separate from the Department of State, to ensure that we can deploy development expertise and U.S. foreign assistance quickly, particularly in times of crisis, to meet our national security goals."
Trump returned tonight to DC. Out at Andrews, answering questions, he said of USAID, "It's been run by a bunch of radical lunatics, and we're getting them out. USAID, run by radical lunatics, and we're getting them out, and then we'll make a decision."
Trump on Musk, tonight: "I think Elon is doing a good job. He's a big cost-cutter. Sometimes we won't agree with it and we'll not go where he wants to go. But I think he's doing a great job. He's a smart guy. Very smart. And he's very much into cutting the budget of our federal budget."
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Private citizen Elon Musk is illegally ‘halting’ treasury payments to US contractors
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Hmmm me thinks trump is Caesar and musk is Brutus
An unelected advisory committee threatened to call US Marshals on USAID workers—government officials—for NOT handing over the PPI for government employees and data related to payments.
And everyone’s cool with this???
A private citizen with no security clearance has access to every Americans personal information.
"Katie Miller, whom Trump named to DOGE in December, on Sunday appeared to confirm that DOGE personnel had accessed classified information."
Trying to access classified info without authority… huh. Who does that sound like?
They’ll steal EVERYTHING, and then sell our secrets, or use them for their personal business advantages.
Elon Musk is a CRIMINAL.
Write, call these Senators with your support. They have to hear that we are not going to let an unelected
Nobody decide who receives aid or not. What the f**k even is doge? Be mad. This is bs. Flood the zone.
If you find something with a paywall there's sites that can "archive" it for you