DOGE

They Called It Efficiency. It Looks a Lot Like Treason.

There’s a fine line between modernization and sabotage—and it looks like DOGE stomped all over it.

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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was supposed to make government work better. But from what we’re learning now, it may have made it easier for foreign actors to waltz into sensitive federal systems—through a door DOGE opened and then tried to hide.

A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board says DOGE was given access to NLRB systems—then disabled security monitoring, deleted access logs, and left behind newly created credentials.

And shortly after that? Someone in Russia tried to log in.

Let that sit for a minute.

These weren’t brute-force hacks. These were valid login credentials tied to DOGE activity. The only thing that stopped the access was location filtering—nothing internal, and nothing that would’ve held up if they'd known how to route through a VPN.

This isn’t just reckless. It’s not just stupid. It’s traitorous. And the response so far? Shrug. An inquiry or two. No one’s been arrested. No one’s been fired. No hearings. No panic.

Meanwhile, the people who still believe in American institutions are being asked to take a breath, be reasonable, and not politicize the issue.

But here’s the thing:

If Trump had created a department that exposed union data to foreign actors and deleted the audit trail, it would’ve led every newscast for weeks. And it should have.

But somehow, when it’s done under the banner of modernization and tech efficiency, we downplay it.

We don’t get to scale our outrage based on who’s in charge. Treachery is treachery.

DOGE didn’t just trip over a firewall—they disabled the cameras and invited the worst people in the world to test the locks.

You don’t do that by accident.

And when whistleblowers like Daniel Berulis come forward and say, “Hey, we’ve been compromised and here’s how,” we ought to listen—not bury the story under three layers of procedural language and PR-sanitized agency statements.

We’re losing the ability to see the breach even when it’s in plain sight.

But then again, that’s the point.

Bannon once said, **“The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.”**¹
DOGE didn’t just flood it. They digitized it, anonymized it, and tried to hand it off.

And let’s not forget:
The Trump Organization hasn’t just blurred the line between business and politics—it’s bulldozed it in the service of foreign interests, self-enrichment, and authoritarian flirtation. At this point, calling it merely corrupt feels generous. There’s a word for behavior that consistently puts personal power above national interest: traitorous.

And Trump supports it. Or at least, he’s shown no urgency to distance himself from it—not then, and certainly not now.
Just follow the money. It mostly goes to one place. And it’s all part of the authoritarian coup.

This isn’t efficiency. It’s erosion.

And the longer we pretend it’s just a tech hiccup, the more dangerous it becomes.

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