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Alex Galbraith

US Treasury: DOGE is "insider threat"

An intelligence team within the U.S. Treasury Department said Elon Musk's slash-and-burn Department of Government Efficiency represents "the single greatest insider threat risk" they have ever faced, in an email sent to staffers this week.

That email, in which the agency's threat intelligence team recommends suspending all access to members of DOGE, was obtained by Wired. News of the team's feelings on the seemingly widespread incursions into sensitive data by Elon Musk's youth brigade came after DOGE had its access to Bureau of the Fiscal Service records significantly curtailed by a federal judge.

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