U.S. attorney hints at prosecutions over 'targeting' of DOGE employees

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/03/martin-supports-for-musk-doge/

"Interim U.S. attorney Edward R. Martin Jr. alleged in a statement Monday that his office in D.C. had found evidence that people “committed acts that appear to violate the law in targeting” employees of Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” — an unusual statement that came without any public criminal charges.

Hours after making public a letter he wrote to Musk saying the U.S. attorney’s office would “pursue any and all legal action against anyone who impedes your work or threatens your people,” Martin posted on X that his “initial review of the evidence” had found wrongdoing and hinted that he planned to take legal action.

“We are in contact with FBI and other law-enforcement partners to proceed rapidly. We also have our prosecutors preparing,” Martin said.
Martin’s statement did not say what laws were broken or what evidence there was of illegal conduct, though Musk had earlier highlighted a string of menacing online posts about those working for DOGE. The images, posted on X by the account @reddit_lies, included users saying “Muskrat’s DOGE Henchmen have identified,” “let’s drag their necks up by a large coil of rope” and “ … doing this type of thing to the American people should result in you fearing for your life, if you get to keep it.” The Reddit thread from which the images seemed to have been drawn was deleted as of Monday evening..."

[BOSSHOG]

1. "Violate the Law"

Of course Republicans were involved. Republicans have no use for rule of law or common decency. Because. They are republicans.

[cliffside]

3. What's that old saying about asking for permission vs forgiveness and they plow ahead with speed

[Skittles]

2. Trump whore

sickening

[cliffside]

4. President Musk at the helm :( nt

[yellow dahlia]

5. I try not to overuse this word right now, but this is SCARY.

[Hugin]

6. Ah, the old we're not the criminals, you're the criminals defense.

Cute.

This is to muddy the waters about trespassing.

Whatever happened to the legal doctrine in the US that said that the law breakers were liable for whatever auxiliary damage occurred?

[cliffside]

9. Exactly turn the attention, watched the Apprentice film ... attack, attack, attack, no laws. nt

[Cuthbert Allgood]

7. How are they employees when DOGE isn't a Department.

And Musk is just a fucking rando with no job or clearance in the government.

This is just both unbelievable and exactly what I thought would happen at the same time.

[cliffside]

11. They work for President Musk aka a "special government employee' who will challenge them?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-makes-musk-worlds-richest-man-special-government-employee-2025-02-03/

[yaesu]

8. Its like the quote these hands are registered as lethal weapons, if I kill someone I could go to jail

hell, if anyone kills someone they can go to jail (thanks Brad Pitt). In other words if someone threatens anyone for any reason they could be prosecuted. These fascists are just little wimpy crybaby mommies boys.

[dalton99a]

10. "Dear Leader Elon, please allow me to lick your anus some more"

[cliffside]

12. Protect DOGE ...

[NYC Liberal]

13. But targeting members of Congress is fine.

[cliffside]

14. We live in challenging times, with help we'll prevail :) nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. Trump's top D.C. prosecutor vows to wield the law against those who get in Elon Musk's way

TFG's new acting attorney for DC is not only out to pursue political vengeance on TFG's behalf but to also protect Doge, musk and the muskrats

This sh*t is only gonna get real ugly in days and weeks to come deserving.

Trump’s top D.C. prosecutor vows to wield the law against those who get in Elon Musk’s way www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

— (@carolynsandidge.bsky.social) 2025-02-06T00:21:24.271Z

This sh*t is only gonna get real ugly in days and weeks to come deserving.

Trump’s top D.C. prosecutor vows to wield the law against those who get in Elon Musk’s way

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/ed-martin-dc-attorney-elon-musk-doge-rcna190792

Shortly after Donald Trump’s interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia started in his position, he launched a probe of the office’s Jan. 6 work, while the Justice Department fired prosecutors who worked on those cases against Trump supporters. Ed Martin, who was a “Stop the Steal” advocate and lawyer for Jan. 6 defendants, proceeded this week to pledge support for Elon Musk and his “Department of Government Efficiency” workers, assuring Musk that he’d bring the office’s full weight to bear “against anyone who impedes your work or threatens your people.”

There’s a through-line between the two seemingly separate efforts that does well to capture the Trump administration’s approach to “law and order” in the Musk era: That is, using the law as a shield for Trump/Musk supporters and a sword against their critics. .....

Bear that in mind while considering his public message to Musk, posted to the billionaire’s social media platform on Monday. “We will protect DOGE and other workers no matter what,” Martin wrote, calling it important to keep American employees safe and to protect “the American people’s property.” He also bemoaned “thugs with guns [who] trashed our capital city.” (Martin was not referring to Jan. 6 defendants there.)

Separately, the federal prosecutor’s office for D.C. issued an official statement saying that an initial review showed that “certain individuals and/or groups have committed acts that appear to violate the law in targeting DOGE employees” and that the office has “our prosecutors preparing.”

Preparing what? Against whom? And what laws?

Martin didn’t specify, which can be its own problem to the extent it chills protected expression. The prosecutor’s letter followed reporting from Wired that identified “six young men — all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24, according to public databases, their online presences, and other records — who have little to no government experience and are now playing critical roles” in Musk’s crew......

Putting aside whether Musk and his staff have broken the law, if people are committing crimes against them, then prosecutors with relevant jurisdiction should take action. Indeed, that basic principle goes without saying — and usually goes unsaid. Martin’s public statements raise questions about his motivation for a public display and about whether he’s gearing up to weaponize government against people for exercising their rights, which, of course, is how he and the Trump administration have cast the Jan. 6 prosecutions.

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16. Poor DOGE employees, so mistreated ... hard to keep up, my son just told me about this DEI watchlist, found this article

deiwatchlist.com

Did not use a share article as only have 6 left for the month and it is only the fifth of Feb.



https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/us/politics/dei-watchlist-federal-health-workers-cdc-nih.html

Right-Wing Group Publishes ‘D.E.I. Watch List’ Targeting Federal Workers

"A conservative nonprofit has posted the names and photos of more than 50 federal workers on what it is calling a “watch list” related to diversity, equity and inclusion, asking President Trump to fire them.

The group says the workers named in its “D.E.I. bureaucrat watch list” supported diversity, criticized Mr. Trump on social media or made donations to Democrats. Many of the targets are Black workers at health agencies.

The list was compiled by the American Accountability Foundation, a small right-wing nonprofit that was founded in 2020 to oppose Biden administration policies and nominees. Since Mr. Trump’s election, the group has stepped up its targeting of specific federal workers — some of them career employees with little power — that it believes oppose his agenda.

The list included “dossiers” about individual staff members, listing what it called their “D.E.I. offenses.”

[Hitorque]

17. Trumpers are choosing violence

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. Musk falsely claims that it's a crime to publish the names of his partners-in-crime. Tough

Link to tweet