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Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data

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Re: Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data

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Post by galleywest200 »

toomanyrichies wrote: post #8
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Will there be any accountability? FTA: "SSA referred both DOGE employees for potential violations of the Hatch Act." Probably nothing under this administration. But there is a paper trail–now cited in public–for folks in the future to pursue. In the meantime, I'm curious what civil damages they may be liable for.

Not only will there be no punitive action taken by this admin, but I fully expect Trump to extend the current flurry of lame-duck pardons to most if not all members of his administration, for any and all actions they may have taken, before his term is out. I hope I’m wrong, but in his 5 years as President he has yet to display any hint of restraint or ethical compass, so I would be very surprised if this doesn’t happ…

Surely they must have committed some state crimes, which are not pardonable by the president.

Re: Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

toomanyrichies wrote: post #8
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Will there be any accountability? FTA: "SSA referred both DOGE employees for potential violations of the Hatch Act." Probably nothing under this administration. But there is a paper trail–now cited in public–for folks in the future to pursue. In the meantime, I'm curious what civil damages they may be liable for.

Not only will there be no punitive action taken by this admin, but I fully expect Trump to extend the current flurry of lame-duck pardons to most if not all members of his administration, for any and all actions they may have taken, before his term is out. I hope I’m wrong, but in his 5 years as President he has yet to display any hint of restraint or ethical compass, so I would be very surprised if this doesn’t happ…

> I fully expect Trump to extend the current flurry of lame-duck pardons to most if not all members of his administration

I expect he will. At that point, Biden will have pardoned his son for felony gun and tax crimes, as well as pioneered the preëmptive pardon, while Trump will have pardoned violent insurrections, drug lords, fraudsters and his corrupt inner circle. If that isn’t enough to build consensus on striking pardon power from the Constitution entirely, I don’t know what will be.

Re: Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

jfengel wrote: post #7
bediger4000 wrote: post #3

Wow this is bad. Will there be any accountability?

According to the OSC: https://osc.gov/Documents/Public%20Files/Press%20Release/OSC... Violations are sent to the President for disciplinary action. So, no.

Which in practice means he has (more) lackeys loyal to him on pain of criminal prosecution.

Re: Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

mdhb wrote: post #2

Because the headline underplays it quite a bit the actual story here is that the Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results .

> a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results

Guesses as to what they were looking for?

Re: Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data

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Post by dang »

mdhb wrote: post #2

Because the headline underplays it quite a bit the actual story here is that the Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results .

Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46700527.

Re: Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data

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Post by montroser »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #9
montroser wrote: post #5

> Shapiro also revealed that despite prior assertions in court, SSA’s DOGE team members “were using links to share data through the third-party server ‘Cloudflare.’” Wreckless incompetence at the highest levels of government.

Wreckless incompetence at the highest levels of government You mean reckless incompetence. There was plenty of wrecking.

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