Armed guards and muscular milk: Senate’s investigation reveals the details of DOGE
The committee’s researchers saw “cloud infrastructure and organizational network infrastructure” drawn on a white board, but GSA officials blocked their views “with their body”.
The report also claims that the GSA officials “refused to show the StarLink infrastructure to employees,” and told them to plan a follow -up visit and then reject the request. GSA installed terminals from StarLink, the Musk satellite company, about a month after the opening. At that time, GSA employees warned that this would create a significant security risk and expressed concern that terminals could allow DODE to eliminate Out -of -Agency data. According to the report, GSA officials “cannot confirm that the StarLink terminal is configured with the basic security settings recommended by StarLink itself, causing employees to” worry about any data sent or received via Starlink device in GSA and other areas. “
Starlink terminals are also installed at the White House.
This was not the only obvious effort to circumvent government policies and support data. In an interview with researchers, a former OPM employee claimed that “even before the inauguration, the entry government” strong interest in “email servers across the government and focusing communication.” According to the employee, the wolf Hogan, the input CIO, “asked the OPM employees if they could deploy an artificial intelligence system in an out -of -cloud environment, an environment that allows less agency to monitor and less protection.” (Pinor refused to comment on whatever happened before the inauguration. “They responded to a question about Hogan,” Cio asked many technical questions as part of his role.
In SSA, the researchers found that access to the areas where the DOGE worked was controlled by armed guards. According to Dan Kalahan, the Commissioner’s assistant to manage and manage the facilities, this was done because DOGE members “were concerned about their security.” Following further research, the researchers found that the concern is “communicating with an SSA employee that includes curse.”
In GSA, “armed guards controlled work and living spaces. [and] “While researchers visited OPM under armed armed guard,” (armed guards “were ordinary security teams that provided security for the OPM office,” the report said.
As a result of the investigation, the report calls on the Trump administration to complete all DOGE activities, revoke all the representatives of its personal information, and require agencies to provide evidence that this access is in accordance with existing privacy regulations. Researchers also want to turn off the cloud that has loaded Numso data.
White House and GSA did not immediately respond to Wired comments.
Updated: 9/25/2025, 4:01 pm Est: OPM MCLAurine Pinover spokesman.
