Given they have to be vetted the same way as any other government employee with that access, including security clearances, I’m not sure these will succeed.

At least to my mind it’s not clear how a government employee can have access but for doge it’s breaking the law. The devil is in the specific details.

> they have to be vetted the same way as any other government employee with that access, including security clearances

We know this wasn’t done when they were rummaging around the Treasury. Courts are granting restraining orders because the DOGE bros acted so incompetently. (It’s generally incredibly hard to restrain government employees.)

> it’s not clear how a government employee can have access but for doge it’s breaking the law

Same way a park ranger can’t walk onto a military base and start rummaging through documents. Or start tweeting them. (Or hell, the President himself tweet your tax return.)

> We know this wasn’t done when they were rummaging around the Treasury.

Sorry, do you have a source for that? Having trouble verifying it.

I agree there are standard vetting and security clearances, and they should be followed.

Item 91 in the EPIC complaint [1], which was found to be sufficiently merited to permit a TRO. (It’s a legal filing. Allegations will always be couched.)

[1] https://epic.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/EPIC-v-OPM-25-cv...

They were not vetted/bgchecked, full stop, and are not complying with any security controls. Doing my yearly fedgov security trainings while those fucks are yoloing with all classifications of sensitive data is, shall we say, bitterness inducing.

That’s not what I heard. Do you have evidence for that?

These have not been adjudicated