Federal judge tightens DOGE leash over critical Treasury payment system access Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has had its access to US Treasury payment systems restricted - at least temporarily - following a lawsuit from advocacy groups and unions. A federal court order [PDF], issued today by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington DC, limits DOGE's access to systems within the Bureau …
Turns out he had been posting massively racist stuff on X, and has had to resign. If only his boss had been able to look at his social media posts before hiring him.........
"The 25-year-old employee, Marko Elez, resigned Thursday after The Wall Street Journal asked the White House about his connection to the account. The deleted profile associated with Elez, who was embedded in the Treasury Department to carry out efficiency measures, advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act and backed a “eugenic immigration policy” in the weeks before President Trump was inaugurated.
“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” the account wrote on X in September, according to a Wall Street Journal review of archived posts. “Normalize Indian hate,” the account wrote the same month, in reference to a post noting the prevalence of people from India in Silicon Valley. "
Particularly hard as this Elez wanker already "pushed code direct into [Treasury] production [systems] to make it easier to block payments" (3rd paragraph).
Whatever that code is now needs to be hunted down and nuked into orbit!
>Whatever that code is now needs to be hunted down and nuked into orbit!
Nah, keep it. Lets have some transparency.
Where was the money going, what are you scared of? The truth?
The list of payments by USAID for eg. are truly shocking. To Politco, Gamer Gate smears, Gautamalan sex change operations, the Ukraine coup in 2014, meddling in Wikipedia.
More will come out. And you aren't interested? Sure, its about privacy. Is it balls. Let gets it all out on the table and see whats what.
Tax payers money shouldn't be spent on the party in power (which ever "side") to shill out its own propoganda. The International Development org that JFK intended is not _this_
“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,”
The obvious counter to that is "How much do you think you will have to pay in order to marry within your ethnicity?".
I also note with pleasure that the twat didn't specify a sexual preference. Does The Donald know about this potential ambiguity?
and I'm not talking a few Americans, or some collection of, or only the important ones. America's systems and data bases have been breached in the largest foreign hostile takeover in history. The telcoms themselves are going in and out of service, and the phones are getting blasted with scam text messages.
America has been successfully taken over. Please be careful over seas. It's all a world domination plan that is pointing back to russia. Americans don't know what to do about it yet, but it is understood this started with social media, and with the tech industry. Everything has been compromised, and nothing is to be trusted. Half the population refuses to let themselves believe it yet ( because they know they were responsible). Do not trust the internet, or the media at large. Most media has been turned into propaganda machines for putin at this point. It's a very serious situation. Everything you see and hear is a lie.
The GAO and others were not doing their job. Value for money is one principle, not lowest or only quote. Checking you got what you paid for - is also crucial. National priority, another - not for electoral gain. These nerds are NOT interested in your personal information, and just remember they potentially get to see Trump and Musk's personal details. What they do will be logged - so they go to jail if they blab. So far they are only calling out suspicious or questionable payments. Not misnamed titles where the money landed elsewhere. So far the executives and decision approvers for these projects have not be named and outed. The fun will begin when GAO follows the money looking for kickbacks and personal gain in office (which should be illegal). The real fun will begin when modern data matching engines are turned on, and things like the top 100 lists get spat out.
The real problem will be when data joins (in sql speak) are done across departments, then banking info. Full data matching in other words. One suspects a bunch of nerds will be a far better security risk than outsourced to a big four accounting company - or those previously involved who said nothing.
On the claimed production code change - it should be harmless. Batch transactions should have journal - processed - and exceptions/unprocessed. Flipping a flag or bit should already be in there. Adding a code for say 'Executive Order - Payment under audit review' is perfectly normal. Just a when you try clearing a cheque, the bank says 'Hang on, we are checking on money laundering' as a way to skim a few days interest.
Hands up, if you ever had a job, and told if an auditor visited you, to say nothing, and refer him/her to your boss. Hands up if that post-implementation review on a failed project became a 'success' on the departing PM's resume.
Also wanted to say there are ordinary programmers, and ones who before VM's and test environments used trace , breakpoink and single step execution to test out their changes. It can be done, but few system programmers left. I had several decades of -805's when rebinds were not done, or just flat out copied from the last change.
I find it funny when some whine about privacy when most American Banks and state institution's have been hacked, ssn's stolen etc. And the fine for this - probably just a few bucks per individual. Just remember all exposures may not have been reported - there is a lot of cover-ups. A drone over your house gives a pretty good indicator of how you are doing. Your credit rating and dossier is up for sale. cheaply. It will take a lot more digging to expose Delaware LLC identity hiding. Bring on the fractal matching.
On the claimed production code change - it should be harmless. Batch transactions should have journal - processed - and exceptions/unprocessed. Flipping a flag or bit should already be in there. Adding a code for say 'Executive Order - Payment under audit review' is perfectly normal. Just a when you try clearing a cheque, the bank says 'Hang on, we are checking on money laundering' as a way to skim a few days interest.
This is like someone who was involved in Y2K reading an something from someone who wasn't involved in it but nonetheless has an opinion.
I'd like to see a 25-year-old graduate messing round with my transaction processing system without it blowing up in production. The last time someone messed around with it while I was assigned to another project I was mopping up the mess for two weeks. You'll probably never know until there's a problem buried in there until the right set of conditions happens then all hell breaks loose. Have you thought about what a some kind of super global "ignore me" feature does to all the future transactions which depend on the ignored transaction, they expect a certain set of conditions to be in place but now don't they have them? Thought not.
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