The other Trump malingerers are giving adept examples of how to ape compliance while going completely against the law. Complying with the law in contravention of DOGE wishes should be simple in comparison.

Okay, if they have, then please explain to me what they did differently.

Maybe the NSF director should confer with their GS peers in other services:

https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/the-art-of-simple-sabotage...

That exact book states that sabotage should only be done with plausible deniability, so I ask again...

So you'll ask... What?

I'm not sure what you're asking at this point.

It's a book about sabotage over a long period of time, written in particular to partisans of various countries.

Plausible deniability is the CIA operating method.

"How to do shit to subvert large orgs covertly via death by a thousand cuts" is another title for the manuscript, in some universe, somewhere.