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DOGE staffer resigns over racist posts

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Re: DOGE staffer resigns over racist posts

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Wonder how Elon is getting the clearance for this , dude smoked weed on camera , isn’t that automatically disqualifying for gov clearance ?

Presidential mandate

To become a dictator? This isn't in the presidential powers. Congress needs to pass a bill if they want to do this.

Re: DOGE staffer resigns over racist posts

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If you're having a team going into every bit of government data, you might want to vet them. Beyond eugenicists and racists, if they're getting anywhere close to SCIFs, make sure they fill out that SF-86 accurately. And maybe even if they're not, have them go through regular clearance procedures. Yes, it takes time. But right now, DOGE seems like a huge security risk for the USG what with it setting up backdoors ever…

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Re: DOGE staffer resigns over racist posts

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Wonder how Elon is getting the clearance for this , dude smoked weed on camera , isn’t that automatically disqualifying for gov clearance ?

He doesn't have clearance. They march into the offices, demand access, whoever is there says "no", then that person gets fired (placed "on leave") ten minutes later. Rinse and repeat.

"This is why it's an illegal coup."

Vs ? what? a legal coup? or the other varietys like these agencies under scruteny fund worldwide?

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The other day, I read a comment on the Wired post stating: "Really, all this article says is that if you are an auditor for the commission appointed by the president, we will make sure that this comes up in an aggressively negative way when somebody who you want to work for googles you. It's pure intimidation, masquerading as journalism." Well, it seems these young men were chosen for qualities that should make them…

I think that unfortunately what's been proven with recent developments is that in some way racism is very American.

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If you're having a team going into every bit of government data, you might want to vet them. Beyond eugenicists and racists, if they're getting anywhere close to SCIFs, make sure they fill out that SF-86 accurately. And maybe even if they're not, have them go through regular clearance procedures. Yes, it takes time. But right now, DOGE seems like a huge security risk for the USG what with it setting up backdoors ever…

I see your point, but talking about risks after a de-facto heist could easily lead to misunderstandings. This intelligence operation is a done deal.

If concerned people debate future risks instead, the other team has scored an A+.

If you want to mitigate what had happened, you need to bring your own extremely resourced criminals. I really feel sorry for all affected.

Re: DOGE staffer resigns over racist posts

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Wonder how Elon is getting the clearance for this , dude smoked weed on camera , isn’t that automatically disqualifying for gov clearance ?

While there are guidelines in the form of an unclassified, gov't-hosted desk reference [1] ultimate discretion seems to be left to adjudicators. There are public archives [2] that talk about such decisions made in tricky cases of criminal activity, financial malfeasance, potential blackmail, etc. I've seen at least one where somebody admitted to doing hard drugs while having a clearance and actually got upgraded to a TS (though this was ~10 years ago and I can't find it via search engine).

[1] https://www.dhra.mil/portals/52/documents/perserec/adr_versi...

[2] https://doha.ogc.osd.mil/Industrial-Security-Program/Industr...

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