From Popular Information:
The Trump administration has installed a DOGE operative as the new Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Social Security Administration (SSA) in an apparent effort to evade a federal court order blocking DOGE affiliates from accessing databases containing the sensitive personal information of millions of Americans.
Popular Information obtained an internal memorandum from Acting SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek announcing Scott Coulter, a DOGE operative previously assigned to NASA and the SSA, as the SSA's new CIO.
The move, which was not announced publicly, seems related to a federal lawsuitfiled by a coalition of labor unions — including the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), AFL-CIO, and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) — on February 21. The lawsuit alleged that DOGE officials were accessing "personal, confidential, private, and sensitive data from the Social Security Administration" in violation of federal law, including the Privacy Act. The labor unions sued the SSA, Dudek, and then-CIO Michael Russo to stop the disclosure of the data to DOGE.
On March 21, the federal judge overseeing the AFSCME case, Ellen Lipton Hollander, granted the plaintiffs a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) which prohibited SSA, Dudek, and Russo from "granting access to any SSA system of record containing personally identifiable information" to DOGE or any "members of the DOGE team established at the SSA." The order defined the DOGE team at SSA as "any person assigned to SSA to fulfill the DOGE agenda." …
I’ll say this. The longer Coulter hangs around Social Security the fewer illusions he’ll have about the agency. At this point DOGE’s illusions about Social Security may be a bigger threat than its malevolence.
9 comments:
Why do these guys even want these jobs? They could be making a lot more elsewhere.
It might be my old job renting umbrellas at the beach - $.25 per hour and all you can steal.
I was not aware the Agency could hire people so fast!
Coulter is even more of a DOGEman than Russo. Childish games, judges love them I'm sure.
@10:53AM probably because they are getting some other benefits out of the situation other than SSA salary.
Only the bureaucrats at Social Security could get mad about a NASA genius taking a job there to help fix the place up. Go figure?
It's all to establish a system compatible with block chain.
How do you define bureaucrat? What makes him a "NASA genius"? Explain how work at NASA carries over to SSA, which, unlike NASA, handles the personal, financial, employment, banking, or medical data of every American around the world, not to mention foreign nationals interacting with the agency. What precisely is he doing to "fix the place up"? Who is, as you put it, mad? I see no anger in the comments before yours.
These are rhetorical of course, as I expect nothing more than ad hominem attacks or logical fallacies in response (e.g., what aboutisms and false equivalencies).
Judging from the Moire' patter, looks like a picture of a monitor. Nice to see employees taking pictures of internal docs and sharing them publically (sarcasim)
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