Armed Guard and Muscle Milk: Investigations in the Senate reveal the details of the seizure

“Do not make the government Dog more efficient – it puts sensitive information for Americans in the hands of individuals who are not completely qualified and not worthy of trust,” Gary Peters, a member of the Democratic Senate of Michigan and a member of HSGAS. “They go beyond protection of cybersecurity, evading supervision, and developing American personal data at risk. We cannot allow this shadow to continue working without deterrent while millions of people face the threat of stealing identity, economic turmoil, and permanent damage. The Trump administration and the agency’s leadership immediately must stop these reckless measures that cause excessive risk in Americans in Americans.”

When visiting GSA offices, the committee investigators saw “cloud infrastructure and network networks” plans on the blackboard, but GSA officials prevented their view “with their bodies”, says the report.

The report also claims that GSA officials “refused to show employees’ infrastructure,” tell them to set a date for a follow -up visit and then refused the request to do so. Those GSA stations installed from Starlink, Musk Musk, About a month After the opening. at that time , GSA employees warned This poses a great security threat and anxiety about the anxiety that the stations can allow DOGE to get the agency’s data out of the agency. According to the report, GSA officials were unable to “not even confirm that Starlink was configured with the basic safety settings recommended by Starlink itself,” which makes the employees “worrying that any data is sent or received via the Starlink in GSA and other sites can be an easy goal for foreign opponents.”

Starlink stations were installed in White House.

This was not the only clear effort to circumvent government policies and protection about data. In an interview with the investigators, a former OPM employee claimed that “even before the opening, the incoming administration expressed a” strong interest “in the governmental servers at the government level and the centralization of communications.” According to the employee, Greg Hogan, the upcoming information manager, “asked OPM employees whether they could publish the Amnesty International system in an environment outside the hibernation, an environment that allows lower supervision in the agency or fewer guarantees.” (The unknown OPM spokesperson refused to comment on anything that happened before the opening.

In SSA, investigators found that reaching the areas worked on by the armed guards. This was a measure, according to Dan Kalhan, Assistant Commissioner in the Building and Facilities Department, because Dog members were “interested in their safety.” When making more investigation, investigators found that this anxiety stems from “communication with the SSA employee who” included cursing. “

In GSA, the armed guards who controlled the work and living spaces (and) rooms were closed, while the investigators were visited to OPM under the armed guards. (“The” armed guards “were the regular security teams that provide security for the OPM office,” said the unknown OPM spokesman, pointing to “misconduct” by investigators during their visit to other agencies.

As a result of the investigation, the report calls on the Trump administration to end all DOGE activities, and to cancel all actors who keep it on personal identification information, and the agencies are asked to provide evidence that access is compatible with the current privacy regulations. The researchers also ask SSA to close the cloud environment that DOGE has downloaded.

The White House and GSA did not immediately respond to the WIRED suspension requests.