The Daily Populous Monday February 3rd, 2025 evening edition
Authored by huffpost.com and submitted by zsreport

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BotherResponsible378 on February 3rd, 2025 at 13:29 UTC »

This feels like we’ve gone past the event horizon.

KidKilobyte on February 3rd, 2025 at 12:52 UTC »

In previous administrations you’d be in trouble for providing access. This is not how any of this is supposed to work. My mind boggles that it is happening to any degree at all. I’ve been in government contracts work and it is a constant barrage of training to not let things like this happen.

zsreport on February 3rd, 2025 at 12:45 UTC »

A bit from the piece:

> Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Sunday slammed the Trump White House’s reported placing on leave of two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development after they reportedly declined access to classified materials to staffers from the Elon Musk-led, spending-slashing-seeking non-official Department of Government Efficiency.

> “This is a five alarm fire,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on social media.

> “The people elected Donald Trump to be President ― not Elon Musk,” she continued. “Having an unelected billionaire, with his own foreign debts and motives, raiding US classified information is a grave threat to national security.”