Elon Musks DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website HuffPost UK Politics

pSenior Politics Reporter HuffPostppWASHINGTON Elon Musks team at the socalled Department of Government Efficiency has posted classified information about the size and staff of a US intelligence agency on its new website raising bigger concerns about where Musks programmers got this information and what they are doing with itppDOGE which President Donald Trump created to purportedly root out waste in the federal government launched its website on Wednesday night with a feature allowing users to trace your tax dollars through the bureaucracy People can navigate through all federal agencies and offices for details about their head counts budgets and average ages of employeesppThe website states in tiny print at the bottom that its database excludes information from US intelligence agencies ppBut an easy search shows that DOGEs database provides details on the National Reconnaissance Office the federal agency that designs builds and maintains US intelligence satellites Not only are NROs budgets and head counts classified but the prospect of Musks tech team meddling in sensitive personnel information is setting off alarms for some in the intelligence communityppDOGE just posted secret NOFORN info on their website about intelligence community headcount so currently people are scrambling to check if their info has been accessed said one Defense Intelligence Agency employee who requested anonymity to avoid retaliation from senior leadersppNOFORN stands for Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals meaning information in this category cant be shared with any foreign governments international organizations or foreign nationals without specific authorizationppNRO appears to be the only intelligence agency with its data publicly available on DOGEs website The US intelligence community is composed of 18 organizations and HuffPost searched DOGEs website for details on all of them None of the others had any datappMusk cant claim he wasnt aware that the National Reconnaissance Office is one of the nations intelligence agencies His company SpaceX has a 18 billion contract with NRO to build hundreds of spy satellitesppTwo Senate aides who work on intelligence matters confirmed that NROs headcount and budget are classified though they noted there have been debates within the intelligence community as to whether they should be The reason to keep this information private at all they said is because foreign adversaries could use it to extrapolate how much the US is prioritizing certain intelligence activitiesppNonetheless DOGE sharing this information is absolutely a problem under the current intelligence standards said one of the Senate aidesppAnd the real concern is that Musks surrogates are bumbling around in classified programs These 25yearold programmers I dont think they have enough experience to know what they dont know said this aide Really the question is Where did they get this information and what are they doing with itppA spokesperson for the National Reconnaissance Office punted questions about this back to DOGEppWe defer to the Department of Government Efficiency for comment on the release of information posted on DOGEgov said the spokespersonppHours after this story published a White House spokesperson said in a statement that DOGE did not share classified information even as NROs classified information was still accessible on DOGEs websiteppDOGE did not share classified information any assertion to the contrary is a lie said the spokesperson Yesterday the accusation was DOGE was not transparent and today the accusation is DOGE is too transparent Stop the fearmongering DOGEs mission remains to cut waste fraud and abuse and are doing so with the proper security clearances and following the lawp