{"id":65837,"date":"2025-02-11T18:38:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T18:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/11\/musk-promised-government-transparency-doge-delivers-maximum-secrecy\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T18:39:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T18:39:39","slug":"musk-promised-government-transparency-doge-delivers-maximum-secrecy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/11\/musk-promised-government-transparency-doge-delivers-maximum-secrecy\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk Promised Government Transparency, DOGE Delivers Maximum Secrecy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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from the beginning-to-think-you-can’t-really-trust-what-this-guy-says<\/i> dept<\/h3>\n

Earlier than the election, Elon Musk declared:<\/p>\n

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\u201cI believe that the sturdy bias with respect to authorities info needs to be to make it obtainable to the general public. Let\u2019s be as clear as potential. Absolutely clear.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When considered one of his fanboys tweeted that quote, Elon responded by making an excellent larger declare, saying: \u201cThere needs to be no want for FOIA requests. All authorities knowledge needs to be default public for optimum transparency.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As huge believers (and customers) of the FOIA system, that truly sounded good to us, and I might have supported any precise effort to make extra authorities info and paperwork public by default.<\/p>\n

Proper after the inauguration, Lauren Harper on the Freedom of the Press Basis famous that this was an opportunity for Elon<\/a> to place \u201chis paperwork the place his mouth is, and make DOGE\u2019s data public.\u201d However, she famous, the early indications didn\u2019t look good, together with the truth that considered one of their first orders of enterprise was to close down the OMB FOIA portal. It\u2019s nonetheless down as I sort this.<\/p>\n

After all, if Musk was dwelling as much as his phrases that we wouldn\u2019t even want FOIA as a result of he\u2019d simply make every little thing public, effectively, that may be one rationalization.<\/p>\n

However that\u2019s not what is definitely taking place. Simply as when he took over Twitter, we\u2019re studying that Musk\u2019s guarantees and Musk\u2019s actuality are wholly various things. When he guarantees to make issues higher for \u201cthe folks,\u201d he at all times means \u201cmake issues higher for Elon.\u201d<\/p>\n

As you may see, he mentioned these issues two days earlier than Elon Musk was elected alongside Donald Trump to (apparently) rip out each little bit of accountability from the federal government of america of America. Now that he has close to whole management over the methods that make the US work, he apparently desires them to be fairly rattling secret.<\/p>\n

We first heard about this final week when the at all times wonderful 404 Media reported that the DOGE boys have been told to stop using Slack<\/a>, as a result of somebody realized the conversations have been accessible by FOIA.<\/p>\n

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Workers working for the company now often called DOGE have been ordered to cease utilizing Slack whereas authorities legal professionals try and transition the company to 1 that isn’t topic to the Freedom of Info Act, 404 Media has realized.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cGood morning, everybody! As a reminder, please chorus from utilizing Slack in the intervening time whereas our numerous common counsels work out one of the best ways to deal with the data migration to our new EOP [Executive Office of the President] element,\u201d a message seen by 404 Media reads. \u201cWill replace as quickly as we’ve got extra info!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Feels like somebody\u2019s received one thing to cover, huh?<\/p>\n

On condition that not one<\/a>, not two<\/a>, however three<\/a> of the DOGE boys have been outed as having horrible fucking judgment (both blatantly racist tweets or being concerned with a fucked up cybercrime group constructed round Discord and Telegram chat channels) it’s important to think about that some shit<\/em> is happening in these Slack chats.<\/p>\n

And thus, it was introduced late final week that DOGE has been reorganized outdoors of OMB (topic to FOIA) and now underneath the Government Workplace of the President, which is topic to the Presidential Information Act as a substitute, allowing such records to be hidden for at least a decade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The White Home has designated Mr. Musk\u2019s workplace, United States DOGE Service, as an entity insulated from public data requests or most judicial intervention till at the very least 2034, by declaring the paperwork it produces and receives presidential data.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And that, after all, is provided that the Trump admin abides by the PRA, one thing he was well-known for ignoring in his first administration, including<\/a> when he took categorized paperwork with him to Mar-A-Lago when he left workplace.<\/p>\n

So, once more, what’s Elon hiding? In spite of everything, when he mentioned every little thing needs to be public, he mentioned the one exceptions needs to be issues like \u201clearn how to make a nuclear bomb.\u201d<\/p>\n

Looks like an admission that he\u2019s performing some loopy shit.<\/p>\n

Which is definitely an issue if he\u2019s claiming to be protected by the Presidential Information Act. In spite of everything, the explanation there’s secrecy like that underneath the PRA is as a result of it\u2019s speculated to cowl recommendation<\/em> to the President. The concern was if that recommendation would grow to be public too shortly, advisors wouldn\u2019t be capable to be trustworthy with the President. However the motive many of the remainder of the chief department is topic to FOIA is as a result of they\u2019re truly doing stuff, not simply advising. And that info is required, underneath legislation, to be public.<\/p>\n

I acknowledge, once more, that the Trump administration sees legal guidelines solely as issues they get to make use of to punish these they hate, relatively than something that binds them, however I\u2019m guessing that lawsuits are about to be filed (in the event that they haven\u2019t been already) difficult this designation.<\/p>\n

So, perhaps we\u2019ll truly discover out what sorts of messages Elon is buying and selling with the man who calls himself<\/a> \u201cMassive Balls\u201d and the man who claimed he \u201cwas racist before it was cool.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

However solely after a court docket will get concerned. A lot for \u201cmost transparency.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musk\u2019s model of presidency effectivity seems to imply effectively hiding what he and his crew are doing inside our authorities.<\/p>\n

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\tFiled Underneath: doge<\/a>, elon musk<\/a>, foia<\/a>, presidential records act<\/a>, transparency<\/a>
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