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> According to a whistleblower complaint filed last week by Daniel J. Berulis, a 38-year-old security architect at the NLRB, officials from DOGE met with NLRB leaders on March 3 and demanded the creation of several all-powerful “tenant admin” accounts that were to be exempted from network logging activity that would otherwise keep a detailed record of all actions taken by those accounts. Feels like a pretty good Occa…
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The fact that they left these packages public on GitHub.. guys you do know you can make things private right? Just shows how dumb these people are honestly
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I don't think that "arguing that something is against the rules" is in the CIA sabotage manual, because it's not generally considered sabotage. Maybe if you argue things are against the rules that you know aren't, to slow things down?
It doesn’t matter that the big boss has said that purchasing a $5 knick-knack is ok. You will have that purchase go through the full procurement process, even up to and including an exhaustive search for (cheaper) alternatives.
> According to a whistleblower complaint filed last week by Daniel J. Berulis, a 38-year-old security architect at the NLRB, officials from DOGE met with NLRB leaders on March 3 and demanded the creation of several all-powerful “tenant admin” accounts that were to be exempted from network logging activity that would otherwise keep a detailed record of all actions taken by those accounts. Feels like a pretty good Occa…
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> accounts created for DOGE at the NLRB downloaded three code repositories from GitHub Why is anything of significance on github in the first place? Edit: It's not. They just download python libraries to do "IP rotation" to circumvent rate limits. On the actual complaint: ( https://whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025... ) It seems that the data was stored in Azure which doesn't make it any better.
What do you mean? It was "just" a tool to circumvent anti-scraping measures.
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Trump can wait until the last day in office then issue pardons for any possible crimes, right? Biden did something similar I believe
> Trump can wait until the last day in office then issue pardons for any possible crimes, right? Is your mental model of the pardon process actually confused? Yes, the president can unilaterally issue pardons, and Donald Trump is president until the end of his term, so he can issue pardons on his last day in office.
The comment was about last-day pardons, not pardons in general. Its a topic many presidents have gotten flak or attention for.
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I fully believe there's a stack of pardons in Trump's drawer for everyone involved in this debacle. I can't imagine breaking so many laws all over the government if you thought you'd ever have to face consequences. The alternative to pardons in preventing the next congress & administration from cleaning this up is too dire to really contemplate.
Time to remove the pardon powder. Has it achieved anything productive in the last 100 years?
[1]: https://www.newspapers.com/article/news-and-record-truman-ex...
> According to a whistleblower complaint filed last week by Daniel J. Berulis, a 38-year-old security architect at the NLRB, officials from DOGE met with NLRB leaders on March 3 and demanded the creation of several all-powerful “tenant admin” accounts that were to be exempted from network logging activity that would otherwise keep a detailed record of all actions taken by those accounts. Feels like a pretty good Occa…
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God knows there must be enough normally unused rules in the federal government.
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I don't think that "arguing that something is against the rules" is in the CIA sabotage manual, because it's not generally considered sabotage. Maybe if you argue things are against the rules that you know aren't, to slow things down?
It’s not so much arguing against the rules. It’s following them to the letter when unnecessary. It doesn’t matter that the big boss has said that purchasing a $5 knick-knack is ok. You will have that purchase go through the full procurement process, even up to and including an exhaustive search for (cheaper) alternatives.