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And now Reuters reports that DOGE is snooping on government employees and using AI to find DISLOYALS. And Wired says they’re planning to give a third-party company access to everybody’s IRS data, after firing the people who really DO look for tax fraud, all day long. Meanwhile, they answer to no one, not even the putative acting administrator Amy Gleason, who recently said in a group chat she has no involvement with what the DOGE teams are doing, and has nothing to do with the layoffs. 

For a bunch of people who feel entitled to access to the tiniest government-known details about anyone, DOGE itself sure is mighty shy about who they are and what they are up to. By design! DOGE is so secretive that finding out anything is like trying to figure out what’s going on at a construction site by sorting through its garbage. And the teams are using Signal to circumvent records and transparency requirements about what they’re up to, while at the same time the government is ignoring journalists’ Freedom of Information Act requests, even after a judge ruled that DOGE is covered by FOIA.