Waste and fraud can be ferreted out from the federal government without taking risks with its mountains of confidential data. From Dr. Naomi Wolf at naomiwolf.substack.com:
Why Your Favorite President Does Not Need your Blind Allegiance
I recently wrote an essay titled “The Sack of Rome,” about my deep concerns about how Elon Musk and his team of young engineers — including one who had earlier released private data — were handling their investigations at the Department of Government Efficiency. My argument was that DOGE can obtain for President Trump all of the riveting headlines that many Americans are cheering, related to ferreting out fraud and waste, without taking the crazy risks with our data or causing the potentially terminal damage to our cybersecurity, that they appear to be taking.
Since I raised these questions about the nature of the DOGE NDAs (non-disclosure agreements, which would keep our data private), “non-competes,” (which would protect the intellectual property paid for by our tax dollars), asked why there was a cloud computing guy with Musk, and asked whose AI would be let loose upon the most valuable and pristine dataset in the world — none of which questions have been answered via Mr Musk or the White House — I have been called a lot of names online, and sadly have also sustained a plethora of cancellations of subscriptions and donations, both here and at DailyClout, from former supporters who are very clear that they are upset with me for criticizing DOGE.
But no one yet has said I am wrong.
No one.
Indeed, economist Catherine Austin Fitts, from her own experience managing hundreds of billions of dollars at HUD, added dimensions to my warnings, and amplified my concerns.
