WIRED’s Barrett: Civil Servants Are Defending Their Jobs from DOGE Staff Who Work in ‘Secrecy’ and ‘Demanding’ Sensitive Data

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BARRETT: “No, I think, not only is it not clear with the total number of people, we have reporting that shows that people who work for DOGE are trying to do so in secrecy, they’re not saying their names in meetings, they are not being introduced. So, you could be a career civil servant and walk into a code review at the GSA and not know who this 20-year-old is, who is making you defend your job. There’s been a lot of messaging from the government saying, we have to protect these DOGE staffers’ privacy, which is ironic given the level of access to sensitive data of everyday Americans that they are demanding without much justification.”