Posted on 02/07/2025 12:07:27 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Attorneys general in over a dozen states are threatening to sue the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk, citing privacy concerns.
The 14 attorneys general include California Attorney General Rob Bonta, as well as those representing Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, New York, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
They begin their joint statement pointing to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, writing that it has “given Elon Musk access to Americans’ personal private information, state bank account data, and other information that is some of our country’s most sensitive data.”
“As the richest man in the world, Elon Musk is not used to being told ‘no,’ but in our country, no one is above the law. The President does not have the power to give away our private information to anyone he chooses, and he cannot cut federal payments approved by Congress,” they continued, describing the access to such information to “unauthorized individuals” as “unlawful, unprecedented, and unacceptable.”
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This is the first time those RATholes ever showed any interest in privacy. What a crock.
Can anyone explain how a state attorney general has standing in federal matters?
I didn’t think so.
Does he actually have that access? I am skeptical.
Of course they want to keep their looting private. Why should the proles find out about things that don’t concern them?
Go on then. Do it.
The Democrats have been acting like —
The Judicial Branch is the boss of the Executive Branch.
The Legislative Branch is the boss of the Executive Branch.
and now ...
The States are the boss of the Executive Branch.
Pretty soon the United Nations is going to step in and tell President Trump that he is not allowed to oversee his branch of government.
Musk created PayPal, a secure payment system and had access to hundreds of millions of personal and financial data.
Yeah, he can’t be trusted.
The left also opposes Musk’s team recommending the upgrades for the air control computer systems citing that Musk knows nothing about aviation......yeah, he caught a rocket booster.
““As the richest man in the world, Elon Musk is not used to being told ‘no,’ but in our country, no one is above the law.”
... except Democrats.
Government is Public and the democrat money laundering is Private ,LOL
The gov ALREADY has this info. Has had for a long time. And the peeps working with it are a) government employees and b) it’s an audit, which is LONG overdue.
it has “given Elon Musk access to Americans’ personal private information, state bank account data, and other information that is some of our country’s most sensitive data.”
Does he actually have that access? I am skeptical.
These contractors that are doing this work should have high level clearance by the powers to be.
The Empire strikes back.
Of course it's perfectly reasonable to allow pretty much every IRS employee access to "Americans' personal private information."
All of them controlled by the Dems or RINOs
“Pretty soon the United Nations is going to step in and tell President Trump that he is not allowed to oversee his branch of government.”
If they could they would.
They already have all the date. These idiots don’t get that. The only thing now is to let AI sort through it and connect the dots. That’s probably done as well. Now the humans have to make sense of it. That’s the only thing slowing it down.
They have no idea that DOGE is going to do this with every nook and cranny of the Fedgov.
Agreed. Many times my software work involved de-identifying data in a way to allow people to audit records without seeing names and contact info and such. If a bank account was 12345, I'd generate a random # for that bank account # and, thus, in the report/view the auditor used he could see every time that particular bank account was used (to pick up patterns) without seeing the true bank account #.
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