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Where did DOGE's recruits come from? Here's what we've discovered. In late 2024, a group of young software engineers fanned out across online chat groups and Discord servers. At least three were associated with Palantir or its cofounder—and Musk ally—Peter Thiel.

wrd.cmThe Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE ArmyAt least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned.
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In online chat groups linked to Palantir alumni and SpaceX interns, as well as in a Discord associated with a military artificial intelligence program, the engineers said they were looking for people willing to spend six months in DC, working to cut federal spending by a third. wrd.cm/3EwbLLx

wrd.cmThe Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE ArmyAt least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned.
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Since its establishment by executive order on the first day of Donald Trump’s presidency, DOGE has taken over key agencies at the center of the federal government. But its access to sensitive data and systems has placed DOGE at the center of a growing number of legal battles. wrd.cm/3EwbLLx

wrd.cmThe Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE ArmyAt least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned.
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Early Saturday morning, a federal judge temporarily barred members of the task force from access to records and the Treasury payment system through which the vast majority of federal spending flows, and ordered records in their possession destroyed immediately. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/n...

nytimes.comJudge Halts DOGE Access to Treasury Payment SystemsThe order came in response to a lawsuit filed by 19 attorneys general accusing the president of failing to faithfully execute the nation’s laws when he let DOGE comb through federal computer systems.
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This came days after a US Treasury threat intelligence analysis designated DOGE members as an “insider threat.” An email detailing these concerns called their access to federal payments systems “the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.” wrd.cm/3CLw6vV

wrd.cmA US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
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Rand Rozier
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It is imperative you continue your reporting with this same fervor and intensity when (and not if) they come for your journalists and try to silence you. I will do my part to support this important endeavor.

JBlanchard
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It's notable that Musk did not hire auditors to root out fraud, he hired coders and hackers to reprogram systems to his own liking, behind closed doors without oversight and without Congressional approval.

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