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CNN: Recording reveals new details on controversial DOGE employee
CNN ^ | Feb 22 | By Majlie de Puy Kamp, CNN

Posted on 02/22/2025 5:39:48 PM PST by RandFan

Less than three years before Elon Musk tapped him to take part in a sweeping overhaul of the US government, Edward Coristine, then 17, was the subject of a heated dispute between two executives at the Arizona-based cybersecurity firm where he was an intern.

At issue was whether to allow Coristine to keep his job even though he was suspected of leaking proprietary information to a competitor.

“You’re willing to risk our entire network to a 17-year-old?” one frustrated executive asked the company’s CEO in 2022. “Are you for real right now?”

In a recording of the call, reviewed by CNN, Marshal Webb, the CEO of Path Network, a company that offers services to protect businesses from cyberattacks, defended his decision.

He said he wanted to allow Coristine to continue with his internship, in part, because he didn’t want to make him “an enemy” or have him “running amok” with information he was suspected of taking. Webb allowed him to stay with the proviso that the young employee “not be exposed to anything that’s really sensitive.”

That was then.

Today, the 19-year-old, once known by the online moniker “Big Balls,” is part of Musk’s controversial effort to remake the federal government. He is a “senior advisor” with access to various departments, including Homeland Security, FEMA and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; bigballs; certainlynotnews; clintonnonnews; cnn; communistnewsnetwork; cybersecurity; drivebymedia; edwardcoristine; majliedepuykamp; marshalwebb; pathnetwork; smearjob
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This is so lame from CNN...

'Big Balls' discussed on tape 3 years ago

Is that all ya' got? 😂😂🤣

1 posted on 02/22/2025 5:39:48 PM PST by RandFan
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controversial.....@@ DRINK @@


2 posted on 02/22/2025 5:43:24 PM PST by shelterguy
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To: RandFan

So these “news” organizations can find out every detail about some kid but weren’t able to find evidence that Biden has been brain dead for years.


3 posted on 02/22/2025 5:45:19 PM PST by shelterguy
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"suspected"

Was anything ever proven?

4 posted on 02/22/2025 5:45:22 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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Boy they are just determined to destroy this kid. No wonder CNN is having massive layoffs.


5 posted on 02/22/2025 5:45:53 PM PST by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
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CNNs True colors revealed


6 posted on 02/22/2025 5:48:15 PM PST by RandFan
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“he didn’t want to make him “an enemy” or have him “running amok””

It’s like CNN is too stupid to realize that this just solidifies BB’s bonafides as a bad ass?


7 posted on 02/22/2025 5:49:24 PM PST by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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Doin’ their best Alinsky.


8 posted on 02/22/2025 5:51:19 PM PST by Jeff Chandler
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I saw a woman on Fox discussing those arguing the DOGE was so wrong. She pointed out that Democrats sound a lot like a cheating spouse who just got caught cheating. The spouse looked at their phone and found all kinds of inappropriate pictures and text messages. The Cheater then denies any problem and instantly shift the conversation to how dare you look at my phone, don't you love and trust me anymore. Anytime the discussion comes back to the content, the cheater focuses on the act of snooping.

Now let's review. Democrats and Deep State representatives are against Musk and his team reviewing the computer records. It is all about “trust” and “faith.” They don't want to discuss what has been discovered or should I say “uncovered.” In a relationship this is typically called “gas-lighting.”

9 posted on 02/22/2025 5:53:11 PM PST by Robert357
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They seem to be obsessed with Big Balls


10 posted on 02/22/2025 5:53:23 PM PST by xp38
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To: Robert357

But Musk is unelected, don’t you understand???? s/


11 posted on 02/22/2025 5:59:06 PM PST by shelterguy
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CNN is really desperate, that said, I don’t like hearing this guy leaked the confidential information of his employer, it shows both poor judgment and a lack of character.

Hopefully he’s matured since then.


12 posted on 02/22/2025 5:59:21 PM PST by Truthsearcher
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“They seem to be obsessed with Big Balls”

They’re all trans activist, they’ve had their balls removed.


13 posted on 02/22/2025 5:59:25 PM PST by Fai Mao (Starve the Beast and steal its food.)
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To: RandFan

https://www.linkedin.com/in/majlie

Interesting backround the author has...


14 posted on 02/22/2025 6:00:21 PM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: RandFan

Meanwhile Antifa is posting explosive manuals, so good the scumbags at CNN have their priorities straight.


15 posted on 02/22/2025 6:03:02 PM PST by iamgalt
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This will work out as a “humble brag”.

“You’re willing to risk our entire network to a 17-year-old?”

17. He was only 17 and already he was performing cutting edge work at a data security firm.

The kind of work most people get a PhD to perform, he was doing at 17.

Their criticism just promoted the idea that he’s some kind of computer genius.


16 posted on 02/22/2025 6:04:54 PM PST by Brookhaven (Ted Cruz said Jan. 6 was terrorism; don't forget that the next time you vote.)
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If they have no proof and they made this public the company is open to slander.


17 posted on 02/22/2025 6:12:47 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: RandFan

Does Pooty-Poot run the Commie News Network?


18 posted on 02/22/2025 6:16:23 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: shelterguy

Who is the J6 “Bomber”?


19 posted on 02/22/2025 6:17:00 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: McGavin999

What’s more interesting to me is the clear evidence that CNN and the rest of the communist apparatchiks in media and government are scared to death of a 19-year-old.


20 posted on 02/22/2025 6:25:29 PM PST by cross_bearer_02
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