Elon Musk‘s Department of Government Efficiency’s latest attempt at creating change in the Washington swamp has seen classified information posted to its website.
DOGE – launched by Donald Trump and chaired by Musk to cut government waste – started a website on Wednesday that claimed to let citizens ‘trace your tax dollars through the bureaucracy.’
While the site claims to not post information from the various American intelligence agencies, that appears to have been breached.
A search by the Huffington Post shows information about the National Reconnaissance Office is readily available.
The federal agency is in charge of America’s intelligence satellites, from design to upkeep.
A Defense Intelligence Agency told Huffington Post Friday that spies are in complete flux.
‘DOGE just posted secret NOFORN info on their website about [intelligence community] headcount, so currently people are scrambling to check if their info has been accessed,’ the anonymous worker said.
DailyMail.com has reached out to the White House for comment.
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency’s latest attempt at creating change in the Washington swamp has seen classified information posted to its website
A search by the Huffington Post shows information about the National Reconnaissance Office is readily available
A spokesperson for the NRO merely said: ‘We defer to the Department of Government Efficiency for comment on the release of information posted on DOGE.gov.’
NOFORN is short for ‘Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals’ which means that it cannot be spread to anyone outside the federal government without permission.
NRO is the only one of the 18 American intelligence agencies that appear to have its information released to the DOGE site so far.
One Senate aide called this ‘absolutely a problem under the current intelligence standards.’
There are debates within the intelligence sector, however, as to whether the NRO should be a matter of public record or not.
Another Senate aide claimed that the information is kept private to avoid American enemies from learning what the US’ spying priorities are.
They both agreed that it posed questions as to what Musk and his ‘nerd army’ are up to.
‘These 25-year-old programmers, I don’t think they have enough experience to know what they don’t know,’ they said.
The billionaire Tesla founder was appointed head of the Department of Government Efficiency after months of loyalty to President Donald Trump during his election campaign
‘Really, the question is: Where did they get this information and what are they doing with it?’
The billionaire Tesla founder was appointed head of the Department of Government Efficiency after months of campaigning with President Donald Trump during the election.
Musk has taken over and enlisted a troupe largely young people – three of whom are believed to still be in college – to fill high-powered engineering roles and cut costs.
Musk’s DOGE has been rapidly growing in power and expanding its remit, most recently securing clearance to access to restricted parts of the General Services Administration buildings and IT systems.
These systems store sensitive data including social security numbers, addresses and contact information.
Musk is leading an extraordinary civilian review of the federal government with Trump’s agreement.
‘It became apparent that it’s not an apple with a worm it in,’ Musk said in a live session on X Spaces early Monday.
‘What we have is just a ball of worms. You’ve got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It’s beyond repair.’
More and more young, hungry talent are joining Elon Musk ‘s ‘nerd army’ at the Department of Government Efficiency in attempt to cut the fat on behalf of Donald Trump
Musk recently hinted he was also the mastermind behind Trump‘s decision to purge federal employees by posting a symbolic picture on X harkening back to his infamous Twitter cleanse.
At the time, he sent a letter to staff titled: ‘A Fork in the Road.’ The same title was used in Trump’s recent email proposing generous lay-off packages
Musk later shared on X that he commissioned an artwork of an enormous fork standing in the road, indicating it was all connected.
He does not hold elected office, but on Monday was formally appointed a ‘special government employee” by the White House.
