The Daily Populous Tuesday February 18th, 2025 morning edition
Authored by newrepublic.com and submitted by Murky-Site7468

DOGE.gov was launched Wednesday claiming to give Americans the ability to “trace your tax dollars through the bureaucracy.” The feature allows users the ability to see data from all federal offices and agencies including head counts, budgets, and the average age of staff. But, the website was supposed to exclude data from U.S. intelligence agencies, according to the fine print at the bottom of its main page.

The young whiz kids at DOGE appear to have forgotten that part and included information about the National Reconnaissance Office, which is tasked with creating and maintaining satellites for U.S. intelligence. Much of the agency’s activities, including its budget and head count, are classified and aren’t supposed to be available to the public. Plus, how did Musk’s team get access to that information, anyway? Does it have something to do with Musk’s company SpaceX having a $1.8 billion contract to build satellites for the NRO?

Members of the intelligence community would like to know the answer to these questions. One Defense Intelligence Agency employee told HuffPost anonymously that “DOGE just posted secret [Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals] info on their website about [intelligence community] headcount, so currently people are scrambling to check if their info has been accessed.”

ddkelkey on February 17th, 2025 at 20:55 UTC »

I’m a retired Air Traffic controller. If Musk thinks they can use some AI bullshit to work airplanes, he’s in for a very rude awakening.

zubbs99 on February 17th, 2025 at 20:08 UTC »

After years of stereotyping and demonizing federal workers as lazy expendables sucking the life force out of America, the GOP and Fox and Maga are about to get a civics lesson in what they actually do.

PhilOfTheRightNow on February 17th, 2025 at 20:08 UTC »

What an absolute moron