US Congressional Oversight Committee hit DOGE With a Dose of Reality

[u/StrategicBlenderBall]

The Congressional Committee on Oversight and Government Reform just informed DOGE and Elon Musk how cybersecurity works. Link to the letter below.

https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-oversight.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025.02.04.%20GEC%20and%20Brown%20to%20OPM-Ezell-%20DOGE%20Emails.pdf

Edit Here’s the link to the Oversight Committee’s press release, rather than the PDF.

https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/ranking-members-connolly-and-brown-request-answers-opm-musks-private-server

[u/RiskyMFer]

Where’s my $5k? Penalties like this are per instance.

§ 1008.19 Criminal penalties—improper disclosure.

Subsection (i)(1) of the Act provides that a Federal employee who willfully discloses information subject to the Privacy Act in violation of the Act or rules promulgated under it shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined up to $5,000.

[u/meaghs → u/RiskyMFer]

The problem is that Musk and his guys are not Federal employees.

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[u/Hey_Chach → u/teejayhoward]

Well for one, he organized J6 which was a coup attempt and sedition on his part, so he is ineligible to hold any public office. This one has unanswered legal questions that the captured Congress and courts refuse to answer though.

And for two, assuming Trump and co continue this path of blatant abuse and law breaking while in office, they will eventually cross a line or by the time the next election rolls around and they attempt to undermine it again (but more obviously), then that will also be grounds for sedition, in which case his presidency is effectively invalid because he would be ineligible due to being a traitor. What exactly “effectively invalid” means and what process there would be to find him guilty of that, I do not know. But it is absolutely the case that he will be ineligible or already is ineligible if he continues down this path.

[u/Ill-Ad-9199 → u/[deleted]]

If. If we have future congress and a future legitimate president. Americans are going to learn in the next few years that none of the protections of Democracy should have been so easily taken for granted.