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Have Elon Musk and all these engineers sworn oaths as required to be a federal employee? https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2019/10/the-oath-o... If Elon is "just advising", under what statute or directive does he have specific authority?

If they are accessing TS/SCI information and places like SCIFs have they filled out their SF-86? Are any of them dual nationals and do they have any ties or vulnerabilities to hostile foreign states?

Basic questions given the enormous access they are being given, far beyond frankly any handful of people have generally had in US government history.

Also, they have apparently plugged in their own private server at OPM. Has this already been compromised by Chinese/ Russian agents? Has the NSA had a look?




> If they are accessing TS/SCI information and places like SCIFs have they filled out their SF-86?

Did the Mar-a-Lago workers who moved boxes fill out those forms?

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/25/...

* https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/06/surveillance...


There are class action lawsuits being organized on behalf of federal workers against this egregious data breach and let's hope to god they succeed.


Simple answer: No.


Would contractors need to do any of this? Is DOGE using federal funds?

I'm not exactly clear on the situation but if they are just doing this for free and don't have access to confidential information, I could see that potentially being the key loophole here.




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