Wired is reporting that an internal government threat assessment team has determined that staffers working for Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency should be considered an "insider threat" to sensitive government data.
An internal email obtained by Wired that was sent to the Bureau of the Fiscal Service’s (BSF) IT division and others outlined the dangers of giving Musk's minions access to highly sensitive government functions such as the Treasury Department's internal payment mechanisms.
The email recommended revoking the DOGE members' access to payment systems, as well as other steps to ensure they cannot do harm to government secrecy.
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“There is reporting at other federal agencies indicating that DOGE members have performed unauthorized changes and locked civil servants out of the sensitive systems they gained access to,” the email states.
“We further recommend that DOGE members be placed under insider threat monitoring and alerting after their access to payment systems is revoked. Continued access to any payment systems by DOGE members, even ‘read only,’ likely poses the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
One source tells Wired that this kind of email is likely without precedent in the history of weekly BFS threat report updates, as the team behind the emails has "never identified something inside the bureau as an insider threat risk that I know of."