Trump administration agrees to restrict DOGE access to Treasury Department payment systems

[Prairie Gates]

Source: NBC News

Attorneys for the Justice Department have agreed to temporarily restrict staffers associated with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing information in the Treasury Department’s payment system.

The agreement comes after a group of union members and retirees sued the Treasury Department alleging that providing DOGE access to the federal government’s massive payment and collections system — and the personal data housed in it — violated federal privacy laws.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-administration-agrees-restrict-doge-access-treasury-department-p-rcna190898?taid=67a4345d80b4da00016d8efa&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&fbclid=IwY2xjawIRGBtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdO8Ru0zFzXO2oMp8OIVoWL-dwSkCGR1QgvOM33UHkWH0UQg6Afva0NETA_aem_5GfueYdjT7zQc59dOVGtpg

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Stay on the offensive!

[eppur_se_muova]

1. i.e. AGREES TO FOLLOW THE LAW ... for now. nt

[Prairie Gates]

4. I don't like that they exempted two of these cafones

Tom Krause and the 25 year-old Muskite Marke Elez...they get "read only." They should get oogatz.

[Deuxcents]

2. Keep those lawsuits active. TSF cannot be trusted as he has no credibility

This situation should have never happened..make him accountable

[Traildogbob]

3. Certainly we can trust they will🤔

Oath Keepers they are.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Not good enough.

[Prairie Gates]

7. Agreed

Two of the worst (Krause and Elez) still get access, if "read only." Shut them all out.

Krause is the CEO of Citrix, the remote access outfit. What the fuck is this guy doing in Treasury computers?

Elez is the 25 year-old shitbag harrassing lifetme civil servants and refusing to identify himself.

Fuck outta here!

[yellow dahlia]

6. Yeh. They do it after a court case today.

And according to Norm Eisen who brought the suit, w/ other groups, the judge was going to issue a stay tomorrow. Sure now they're "caught" and they make it seem like it's their "idea".

We now get to wonder how much damage was done.

[dweller]

9. Computer forensic scientists

Can asses the damages .
Need the courts to approve this oversight and eventual correction of the data


✌🏻

[Ponietz]

8. Need a show cause order detailing what they took

[patphil]

10. I seriously doubt he will do that. Trump is all about words when it comes to this sort of stuff.

[Pachamama]

11. It's too late

They have likely inserted malware and have even remote access through some type of Trojan Horse. They likely changed code and deleted things.

Read-only my ass

[Prairie Gates]

13. They want Tom Krause to retain access...he's the CEO CSG, parent of Citrix, the remote access company

[MadameButterfly]

21. so they aren't reallly giving up access

surprise!

[Baitball Blogger]

12. Are you seriously going to take their word for it?

They probably already have a mirror image of the files, or a back door. We need cyber security to go in there and see what they did.

[Baitball Blogger]

15. Oh, not talking to you.

Talking to the legal heads who might think this will be enough. Much like closing the barn doors after the horse is gone.

[Prairie Gates]

18. Copy that

Sorry, a bit raw!

[Baitball Blogger]

19. Oh, man I get it.

[calimary]

34. Wow - how'd MY FACE get in there?

Cuz that’s EXACTLY how I look whenever I hear, see, or read ANYTHING about the donald.

[Baron2024]

24. Right

We need non Trump NSA specialists in there to see what damage has been done. Frankly Musk and his DOGE Agents might be guilty of espionage depending on what they have done with the data. They should be arrested and their gear should be seized asap.

[rubbersole]

26. Tulsi will send somebody over...

...between 8am and never.

[Baron2024]

27. Agents

Some Agents should maybe take some independent initiative. Illegal orders must be resisted. Illegal actions must be met with a response.

[Lulu KC]

16. Okay, next!

Medicare and Medicaid lawsuits, please.

(But isn't it really too late once they're inside? Who's going to watch them to make sure they're being honest? The FBI?)

[Hassler]

17. Sure. The convicted fraudster and rapist can always be believed.

Just ask the genocide Joe voters

[FormerOstrich]

20. Read Only (snort)

If you read it you can write it to another medium. It may prevent updating source data but I don't think they are accessing these systems to update the source data. They want the data. If the data has sufficient controls they should have difficulties "read" encrypted data.

Very interesting about the guy from Citrix. I had been under the impression it was just whiz kids (college age/experience). I am disheartened they have people having experience with legacy systems.

[Sogo]

22. But who knows how much of it they've compromised already....

Bastards.

[Skittles]

23. NO SHIT

THEY PROBABLY HAVE ALL THEY NEED

[defacto7]

29. Easily. Less than a day of unfettered access and they'd be done.

Too easy. Managing the data would be done away from the government servers. Injecting necessary changes would be easily concealed until they have full access again.

[Skittles]

33. I worked for decades in IT

that "read access only" bull made me LOL

for government contracts I had to be interviewed by the FBI and even then, getting full access to multiple sections of a contract sometimes took MONTHS

these fucking Trump humping freaks are EVERYWHERE NOW and there IS NO SECURITY

[JohnSJ]

25. and who will insure that the access will be blocked to DOGE?

[Think. Again.]

28. Treasury Dept. techs should be back at work reviewing, securing, and basically...

...re-writing the entire system immediately, including inserting deadman switches wherever they can. It's big job, but there's no other option.

[City Lights]

30. Seems it's too late for this.

Everything has already been accessed.

[Fla Dem]

31. Thay have NO PLANS TO SHARE INFORMATION..........

He said that two DOGE appointees classified as special government employees, the same status held by Musk, have been granted access to the systems but that there is no plan for those two employees or any other DOGE employee working at the Treasury Department to share the information with Musk or anyone outside of Treasury.

Doesn't mean they haven't already!

[Deminpenn]

32. All these personal data accesses has made it's

way into the consciousness of even the folks who don't pay that much attention to anything outside their day to day lives.

The personal data breaches are making the local newscasts. People seem to be paying attention.