President Donald Trump and X owner Elon Musk are reportedly upset about nonstop leaks coming from within the federal workforce but they are having difficulty in figuring out how to stop them.
Rolling Stone reports that Trump, Musk and their allies have been pitching a number of ideas to stem the tide of leaks, including planting informants within departments who will snitch on their colleagues, as well as gaining back-door access to staffers' communications on their government email accounts.
This latter idea is seen as particularly hopeless, however, as experienced government officials would likely know not to use their government emails to leak damaging information to the media.
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The Trump officials have also started compiling "dossiers" of federal staff members in order to determine which ones are "clearly a liberal."
However, the report adds that Musk and Trump have already fired plenty of federal workers and have tried to intimidate workers out of communicating with reporters, only to see the leaks continue unabated.
As one defiant federal employee told Rolling Stone of their efforts: "Come and find me, a------s."
Nonetheless, the scramble to control leaks has led to a steep paranoia within the federal workforce, with one federal law enforcement career official telling Rolling Stone that "so much of this is just pointless, unless you believe every conspiracy theory out there."