Mediaite reports about a very disturbing connection between MAGA elites and Russian operatives:
A whistleblower’s attorney made shocking allegations regarding a DOGE security breach at the National Labor Relations Board during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Tuesday afternoon.
Earlier on Tuesday, news broke that a relatively new NLRB staffer claimed that DOGE not only accessed data from his agency but also took a substantial amount of sensitive data with them, according to a disclosure shared with Congress that read, “around ten gigabytes of data are, quote, the equivalent of a full stack of encyclopedias worth if someone printed these files as hard copy documents.”
Daniel Bertulis appeared on The Lead, joined by his attorney Andrew Bakaj, and explained the details of how he apparently uncovered a massive amount of missing data from the NLRB following DOGE’s efforts. He ostensibly mocked a White House statement touting the transparency at play, noting that none of the code used by DOGE technicians has been shared publicly.
The article points out that accounts based in Russia were using newly created DOGE usernames and passwords to access sensitive data. Allegations directly tied the effort to Elon Musk and his Starlink concerns, which has a relationship with the Kremlin. Attorney Bakaj: “There are two data points that I wanna point out that should give everybody pause. The first thing, what Dan witnessed was that within 15 minutes of DOGE employees creating user accounts, i.e. Usernames and passwords, within 15 minutes of those accounts being created, somebody or something from Russia tried to log in with the right username and right passwords — that is to say — the right credentials. And that happened over 20 times. The second data point, which is really critical, is that DOGE has also been using Starlink as a means to exfiltrate data. What that means is that, from our understanding, Russia has a direct pipeline of information through Starlink, which means that anything going through Starlink is going to Russia. We also know that this is not unique to the NLRB. This is happening government-wide.”
Qs: What kind of corrupt MAGA hell is going on here? Will djt's corrupt DoJ arrest the whistleblower and deport him to a death camp ion El Salvador?
For deep insights we go to the Peanut Gallery
Peanut 1: God knows what Russia has or if it hacked and placed sleeper viruses/malware into those Dept. of Energy systems. Chernobyl meltdown time!
Peanut 2: This is a huge deal and some people aren't grasping the magnitude of the possible breach here. DOGE has legally and illegally gathered access to most ALL US government systems and depending on the access Russia got, they now have ALL of that information or even access.
Peanut 3: Even with just the employee databases, you could technically run some programs to parse that information and find spies, which the intel community was screaming about not too long ago. Especially after the other DOGE fuckups leaking data.
Peanut 4: We are probably talking about the largest data breach in US history, so another record for Trump! The fact that Trump specifically directed the NSA and intel communities to stop going after Russian Cyber threats is also going to be talked about a lot when we get into the weeds of this thing. This is one of those hanging offenses and someone should be either hanging from the gallows or should be spending their lives behind bars. Christ, I hope we make it out of this as a country.
Well now, that puts things in context.
Musk playing with the Russians
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The NYT reports (not paywalled) about some discomfort among at least some Republican Senators about what djt and his thug MAGA elites are doing to the US and its government:
Senator Lisa Murkowski, the moderate Alaska Republican who has routinely broken with her party to criticize President Trump, has made a startling admission about the reality of serving in public office at a time when an unbound leader in the Oval Office is bent on retribution against his political foes.
“We are all afraid,” Ms. Murkowski said, speaking at a conference in Anchorage on Monday. After pausing for about five seconds, she acknowledged: “It’s quite a statement. But we are in a time and a place where I certainly have not been here before. I’ll tell you, I’m oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice, because retaliation is real. And that’s not right.”
“I just regret that our partyis seemingly becominghas become a party of Donald Trump,” she told CNN last year. (edit for clarity and truth)
Geez, she's finally figuring it all out? Good for her.
Oops, it's too little, too late.
