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Dennis Donovan

(31,059 posts)
Sun Feb 2, 2025, 02:24 PM Feb 2025

Ken Klippenstein: Elmo was at USAID trying to enter a SCIF

Ken Klippenstein
‪@kenklippenstein.bsky.social‬
Elon Musk was at USAID this weekend trying to access a SCIF [Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility], State Department source tells me
February 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development#Purposes
USAID's decentralized network of resident field missions is drawn on to manage U.S. government programs in low-income countries for a range of purposes.

Disaster relief
Poverty relief
Technical cooperation on global issues, including the environment
U.S. bilateral interests
Socioeconomic development


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LisaL

(47,423 posts)
2. Elmo doesn't have presidential immunity, since he hasn't been officially elected.
Sun Feb 2, 2025, 02:27 PM
Feb 2025

Are his actions legal?

Walleye

(44,797 posts)
4. How did he get security clearance? I guess he got it for the space program.
Sun Feb 2, 2025, 02:34 PM
Feb 2025

Seems like United States is intent on committing suicide here

Ocelot II

(130,519 posts)
8. Nobody but the president has presidential immunity, regardless
Sun Feb 2, 2025, 02:37 PM
Feb 2025

of whether they have been appointed or elected. But Eloon knows he'd be pardoned for anything. What he's doing probably is illegal in the sense that he has no government position - he doesn't even seem to have been appointed to any official position. DOGE is something he made up and Trump is just letting him do it.

Walleye

(44,797 posts)
6. That's perfect, maybe we could flatter him into being the first man on Mars. Good suggestion.
Sun Feb 2, 2025, 02:36 PM
Feb 2025

GoCubsGo

(34,911 posts)
9. No, he needs to be locked up, with the key thrown away.
Sun Feb 2, 2025, 02:38 PM
Feb 2025

If you send him back to Africa, he'll still be free to wreak a lot of the havoc he's currently forcing on us. He needs to be removed from society altogether.

GoCubsGo

(34,911 posts)
13. He's not going to go back to Africa without being forced, either.
Sun Feb 2, 2025, 05:35 PM
Feb 2025

And, I don't see the DOJ, Immigration, or anyone else doing that.

Dave says

(5,425 posts)
14. Now that he has all our information...
Sun Feb 2, 2025, 05:41 PM
Feb 2025

… he can do a lot of harm. He can threaten a sledgehammer of suffering if he felt threatened and make good on it. We are in for a whole lot of hurt over at minimum the next 2 years.

GoCubsGo

(34,911 posts)
17. That information isn't going to protect him from
Sun Feb 2, 2025, 06:51 PM
Feb 2025

the owners of the half billion firearms floating around in this country, and he's bound to piss off more than a few of them. am sure he's already doing so. I can see even his own security eventually turning on him, too. And, his Ketamine dealer.

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