PRIVILEGES FOR THE RACIST: Despite the Trump administration’s repeated claims that Elon Musk’s DOGE employees had “read only” privileges with respect to the Treasury Department’s secure payments system, which handles trillions of dollars in federal outlays every year, an internal investigation found that one member of the team actually had “read/write” privileges, meaning he could change data, add more money to some line items and withhold money from others. Politico reports:
Treasury Department officials said Tuesday that the agency last week “mistakenly” and “briefly” gave a member of Elon Musk’s team the power to alter a sensitive federal payments database, prompting an internal forensic investigation that remains ongoing. . . .
Senior Treasury officials wrote in sworn declarations that Marko Elez, a 25-year-old former SpaceX and X engineer, was erroneously granted “read/write” privileges to a secure payments system on Feb. 5.
Elez resigned from the Treasury Department a day later, after The Wall Street Journal surfaced racist social media posts, and Treasury officials said he has not been reinstated to his previous role.
Elez is the Musk hanger-on who last year wrote racist social media posts including “Normalize Indian hate,” and “Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” and “I just want a eugenic immigration policy, is that too much to ask.” Musk had announced plans to re-hire him and JD Vance came to his defense. But, as of now, the Treasury Department has saidhe is not an employee. |
