Posted on 02/05/2025 5:23:26 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
A federal judge said Wednesday that she may immediately block the Treasury Department from directly sharing the personal financial data of millions of Americans with Elon Musk's DOGE.
US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who sits in Washington, DC., made the announcement after an hourlong court hearing, during which a government lawyer said only two Musk allies — both of them now Treasury employees — have any access to the data.
That contention was met with skepticism from one of the lawyers seeking to ensure the data's privacy.
"We remain concerned that the records — the personal information of our association's members — are still compromised," said the lawyer, Nandan Joshi, who represents three unions in a lawsuit against Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent filed on Monday.
"If there's a compromise, it's impossible to unbreak the egg," Joshi said.
Treasury officials have not been forthcoming on what access the two Musk allies have to the data, Joshi told the judge. The two were identified in court as Cloud Software Group CEO Tom Krause and Marko Elez, who has worked at SpaceX and X, formerly Twitter.
"We don't take it as a given that two individuals by themselves, without outside assistance, will manage the supposed task of rooting out fraud, waste, and abuse in a system that handles over a billion payments a year, and trillions and trillions of dollars of payments," he said.
The lawyer representing Bessent and the Treasury Department, Bradley P. Humphreys, countered during the hearing that only Elez has direct access to the data, and that "he briefs and reports to Mr. Krause, who does not have direct access."
"Only those two individuals have been given any access," Humphreys said, adding that as special government employees of the Treasury Department, both are subject to federal ethics and confidentiality requirements.
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Appoint an IG and tell her to soak her fucking head.
Whoa whoa whoa... it’s not YOUR DATA.
It’s OUR DATA.
Not her purview. Not her job.
Back off, Colleen.
Immediate appeal.
Bull$}{!T !!! They’re worried about getting their A$$€$ caught up in the FRAUD THAT IS RAMPANT.
Musk could care less about the average citizen and their $$$. He’s helping to DRAIN THE SWAMP!!!
Yep, this is an executive branch issue, separation of powers, she has no authority whatsoever.
We need to find out which judges are on the take too.
And tie it up in the court system for the next four years?
Judge wants to aid and abet a fraudulent agency.
So the President of the US cannot have access to information in one of his departments?
It should be pretty simple. Either there is an act of Congress that explicitly prohibits access, or there isn’t.
tell her she has no standing ...
This judge was appointed by Clinton.
Hillary probably threatened her with Arkancide.
Maybe what's needed is to make the DOGE boys deputy US Marshals.
It’s not the millions Coleen’s worried about. It’s the HRC’s in immediate danger she’s trying to protect.
That is intellectually incoherent. They can't access all the data but they have to be prevented from accessing the data? This argument basically wants us to believe that the Executive Branch can never audit anything the Executive branch does because it would put privacy data at risk.
Yes, because if she issues an injunction it stops the process from moving forward. Rather then let the Alt Left stop everything by Court order you immediately take it away form their tame DC Judge to a higher court
“They’re worried about getting their A$$€$ caught up in the FRAUD”
It’s cute that they think they’re not ALREADY caught.
This info wouldn’t have been released until ALL the data had been captured and safely stashed away.
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