Doge Staff Stop Using Slack as Agency Transitions to System Not Subject to FOIA

Re:Doge Staff Stop Using Slack as Agency Transitions to Syst... by jacobr1 on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @05:10PM (#42956004)

> DOGE is private citizens giving their opinions about how the government should work to a politician who happens to be listening to them

No, DOGE was formalized as a division of the US Digital Service. Employees of DOGE are federal government employees. Some of them, like Elon are "Special Government Employees" which is a short-term category and avoids certain disclosures.

Creating DOGE and enabling them to have access to certain IT systems is legal ... but what data, how much control they have, what they can demand of other departments is subject to all sorts of laws and controls which may or may not be being followed at the moment.

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Re:Doge Staff Stop Using Slack as Agency Transitions to Syst... by lupusreal on Thursday February 06, 2025 @08:46AM (#42962234)

Okay, so these citizens are federal employees. Guess what, the First Ammendment still gives them the right to tell politicians what they should be doing.

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Re:Doge Staff Stop Using Slack as Agency Transitions to Syst... by nickthegreek on Thursday February 06, 2025 @10:28AM (#42963266)

No one said they didn’t have a 1st amendment right.

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