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Put plainly, we don't know what they swept up, what they still have access to, what they've given to others, or anything, including what the guy who resigned had access to, whether he kept anything, or who he gave it to.

But la-di-da, let's agree to consent orders with Trump's DOJ!
February 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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sarahposner.bsky.social
More from the Wired story of last night:
On February 4, WIRED reported that Elez did, in fact, have admin access to PAM and SPS. Talking Points Memo reported later that day that Elez had “made extensive changes to the code base for these critical payment systems.” In a letter that same day that did not mention Musk or DOGE, Treasury official Jonathan Blum wrote to Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, “Currently, Treasury staff members working with Tom Krause, a Treasury employee, will have read-only to the coded data of the Fiscal Service’s payment systems.” (Krause is the top DOGE operative at Treasury and CEO of Cloud Software Group.) The letter did not say what kind of access the staff members actually had.
February 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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sarahposner.bsky.social
See more from yesterday. The consent order was by no means a victory

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sarahposner.bsky.social Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · Feb 6
2 Muskites still have access under this order. Read it before you repost!
normeisen.bsky.social Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · Feb 6
BREAKING: we just blocked Musk & Trump out of the Treasury systems!

Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!
February 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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sarahposner.bsky.social
This is the lawsuit and consent order I was harping on all day yesterday. The lawyers for the plaintiffs *agreed to* a consent order allowing 2 Musk people (one since resigned over racist social media posts) supposedly "read-only" access to do their "duties" (suggesting those are legitimate).
February 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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sarahposner.bsky.social
As WIRED has reported, Elez was granted privileges including the ability to not just read but write code on two of the most sensitive systems in the US government: the Payment Automation Manager (PAM) and Secure Payment System (SPS) at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS), an agency that according to Treasury records paid out $5.45 trillion in fiscal year 2024. Reporting from Talking Points Memo confirmed that Treasury employees were concerned that Elez had already made “extensive changes” to code within the Treasury system. The payments processed by BFS include federal tax returns, Social Security benefits, Supplemental Security Income benefits, and veteran’s pay.
February 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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sarahposner.bsky.social
US Treasury Department and White House officials have repeatedly denied that technologists associated with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had the ability to rewrite the code of the payment system through which the vast majority of federal spending flows. WIRED reporting shows, however, that at the time these statements were made, a DOGE operative did in fact have write access. Not only that, but sources tell WIRED that at least one note was added to Treasury records indicating that he no longer had write access before senior IT staff stated it was actually rescinded.
February 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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memor-x.bsky.social
well atleast the U.S. health secretary will be able to properly respond to the *check notes* the.....*checks notes again*.........oh dear, you guys are fucked
screenshot from https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-samoa-measles-kennedy-vaccines-pacific-42a9cb583c71f165699b16710884c474 showing that incoming US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr rejecting the cause of deaths during the 2019 measles epidemic in Samoa
February 8, 2025 at 6:17 AM