When I saw that Reuters piece (i think it was Reuters, this afternoon was so many years ago) that said something like "Musk and his employees were attempting to access files" I was like OH SO THEY WERE HACKING THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT? A crime with famously no consequences?
The SGE category was created by Congress as a way to apply an important, but limited set of conflict of interest requirements to a group of individuals who provide important, but limited, service to the Government.
Special Government Employees are federal employees, who serve on advisory committees as SGEs are appointed to a committee to exercise their own individual best judgment on behalf of the Government.
Reporters haven’t asked a lot of questions. They should be in Thune’s face, asking if he thinks purging the FBI and pardoning insurrectionists is acceptable
Federal government employees can be sued in civil court for harm based on conflict of interest by any citizen. The press secretary acknowledged his status and claimed all laws were followed. If that's his designation, he can be sued. Thoughts?
Relatedly, asking any of these officials preemptively resigning or letting Musk fire them if they told Musk "you can't fire me, go talk to someone who can?" Like what the fuck is going on here, are they being explicitly threatened with being thrown in Gitmo?
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*innocent people, bystanders, freedom fighters and the like
What being done is illegal and they are trying to cover for it using the DOJ and this designation.
He's like Alexandr Dugin for Putin.
And what level of clearance does he have?
And is he being paid?