Arguably the biggest national security breach in U.S. history. Private employees downloading personnel data on every federal employee and tax and social security data on every American onto private unsecured servers. Needless to say, completely illegal and subject to major prison sentences.
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Josh Marshall
3/ different pieces fit together. There also seems to be a significant amount of downloading government data onto private servers, etc, totally outside any cybersecurity regime. Additionally it’s unclear to the people inside whether the people doing these things actually work for the US govt…
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- firing squad
- flight to Mars
Whos "we?" Who is the "we" who is going to enforce the law tonight?
Have we forgotten whose DOJ this is?
We are so far off the roads and into the weeds that I have no idea where this all leads to or what to do.
I think we might have some recourse with state AGs over our stolen info, but seems unlikely Musk will ever be charged, let alone convicted of anything.
* Federal civil charges, no.
* State criminal & civil charges cannot be pardoned by the President
Governors can pardon state crimes
When? Who was defending us from "the biggest national security breach in U.S. history?" Wasn't there an armed guard nearby?
The DOJ/FBI is gutted. Anybody who tries to take on Musk will find themselves joining the gutted group. Or worse.
Major media is complicit w/ Trump/Musk. They fear the latter.
'Muricans tuned out. Or too stupid to see.
Bad times
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Otherwise, gallows humor suggests the CIA has the opportunity to improve their public approval rating quite dramatically. Especially if a window were involved.
Obviously. 😏
Voted to confirm the guy that handed our Treasury to Elon Musk
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King (Independent)
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They will continue to feed the public excuses and lies that are more soothing to believe than the truth.
What happened over the weekend will have so many repercussions and all the well-being of this country in the world !
This time IS A time the Democrat Republican MUST FIGHT together
What court could stop it?
Describe the mechanism.
The only thing that can be done is to overwhelmingly vote Blue in two years time. Then it will be up to Democrats to hold trump to account. Confident they will?
at least plan to be taken down kicking and screaming, ffs
But I do want to see the Democrat leadership scrapping tooth and nail…They should have been outside 1300 Pennsylvania Ave with the media this weekend, declaring the unvetted tech-lackeys have compromised national security through their nefarious data breaching.
Do the people, the law of the land, the Supreme Court and the DOJ realize the power of laws broken in this regard?
With what agency do you imagine arresting these people? Which judicial system are you dreaming of to hold these people accountable? I want to live in your fantasy world!
#DataSecurityCrisis
#SystemicFailure
#NationalSecurityRisk
*Which* crimes?
Specificity matter here.
#AuditNAZIElmo #DefundNAZIElmo #DeportNAZIElmo #JailtheOrangePustule #SubprimeCourtReformsNOW #DemLeadershipWhereRU
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/25/republican-verbal-attacks-violence-donald-trump-jim-jordan-fani-willis
What could possibly...POSSIBLY....go wrong?
The normal, everyday American citizen is screwed...BIGLY!!!!
That aged like milk left on the front-door step on a sunnny hot summer’s day in Phoenix.
When I worked at the govt., a co-worker inserted a thumb drive into a PC and IT security immediately and physically arrived in his office. Wtf????
File a class action and get an injunction and send the US Marshals out to enforce it? Seek zillions in damages and schedule depositions of every perpetrator?
@markwarner.bsky.social
@booker.senate.gov
@warren.senate.gov
@amyklobuchar.com
Edward Snowden appears to be the least of our problems when we now have unelected people ransacking our information, deleting publications from CDC, blocking websites.
Massive massive fines for this
It’s time 4 the felon, criminal, Constitutionally disqualified Russian asset and political thief & his cronies (from Project2025 & his loyalists) to go!
He is illegitimate.
When criminals rule the land, no one is safe.
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He is illegitimate.
When criminals rule the land, no one is safe.
https://bsky.app/profile/mousemedium.bsky.social/post/3lgqzddcxfk2o
(Or accept payment in TrumpBux™!)
They're idiots.
It’s kinda gross to suggest that we all deserve to suffer because effectively 24% of the population signed us up for this.
It’s easy to blame the purists on the left who protest-declined.
It’s harder to admit that too few of us actively hyped Kamala and the Dem platform, phonebanked or canvassed, actively engaged our rapid Trumpie neighbors in any attempt at civil dialogue.
Good luck to us all, though
Ffs
🙄😂
#Ididntvote4Musk #bluecrew
Just for starters..Mr.Elon Musk is NOT an employee NOR is he elected..
A rule without a consequence is just a suggestion.
Possible violation of The Privacy Act of 1974.
Call the members of the Senate Advisory Committee on Monday!!!
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And print out all your documents from SSA website!
And the evangelicals delivered. They are domestic terrorists! Anyone going to charge them ?? I didn’t think so . Sad 😢
This is not a heist either, a heist has some risk attached whereas you voted for this and gave it the thumbs up.
Who’s going to stop them?
Hahaha
May if the US would follow the Rule of Law
It is the biggest national security breach in U.S. history.
I'm sure DT has already pardoned all of 'em.