DOGE employees gain accounts on classified networks holding nuclear secrets.
Two members of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency were given accounts on classified networks that hold highly guarded details about America's nuclear weapons, two sources tell NPR.
Prior to their work at DOGE, neither Farritor nor Ramada appear to have had experience with either nuclear weapons or handling classified information.
A spokesperson for the Department of Energy initially denied that Farritor and Ramada had accessed the networks.
In February, CNN reported that DOGE employees, including Farritor, were seeking access to the secretive computer systems.
It remains unclear just how much access to classified data the two DOGE staffers could have actually had if they had used their accounts.
They described the access as a "toehold" that would allow DOGE staffers to request information classified at the secret level. »