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Jenna McLaughlin

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Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

And he told me in an interview that none of that confidential and deliberative information should ever leave the agency.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

And he told me in an interview that none of that confidential and deliberative information should ever leave the agency.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

The data leaving was almost all text files. It added up to around 10 gigabytes. Think of that like the equivalent of a full stack of encyclopedias worth of pages if someone printed them. But it's possible the files that were extracted were compressed into a smaller package or that only some of the files were extracted. They could have searched for something specific.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

The data leaving was almost all text files. It added up to around 10 gigabytes. Think of that like the equivalent of a full stack of encyclopedias worth of pages if someone printed them. But it's possible the files that were extracted were compressed into a smaller package or that only some of the files were extracted. They could have searched for something specific.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

The data leaving was almost all text files. It added up to around 10 gigabytes. Think of that like the equivalent of a full stack of encyclopedias worth of pages if someone printed them. But it's possible the files that were extracted were compressed into a smaller package or that only some of the files were extracted. They could have searched for something specific.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

Well, according to his disclosure, next thing he does is gather the troops. He got his IT team together to discuss possible insider threats, namely the Doge engineers. So this group of people eventually launched a formal breach investigation.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

Well, according to his disclosure, next thing he does is gather the troops. He got his IT team together to discuss possible insider threats, namely the Doge engineers. So this group of people eventually launched a formal breach investigation.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

Well, according to his disclosure, next thing he does is gather the troops. He got his IT team together to discuss possible insider threats, namely the Doge engineers. So this group of people eventually launched a formal breach investigation.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

They were actually preparing a request for assistance outside their agency from the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. That's a mouthful. You can just call them CISA. They have more forensic tools to investigate potential breaches than the NLRB does. But ultimately, those efforts kind of just went quiet.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

They were actually preparing a request for assistance outside their agency from the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. That's a mouthful. You can just call them CISA. They have more forensic tools to investigate potential breaches than the NLRB does. But ultimately, those efforts kind of just went quiet.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

They were actually preparing a request for assistance outside their agency from the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. That's a mouthful. You can just call them CISA. They have more forensic tools to investigate potential breaches than the NLRB does. But ultimately, those efforts kind of just went quiet.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

They were disrupted without an explanation from somewhere higher up, according to Brulis.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

They were disrupted without an explanation from somewhere higher up, according to Brulis.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

They were disrupted without an explanation from somewhere higher up, according to Brulis.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

So, Aisha, I should also say that the NLRB told NPR that they did conduct an investigation into Brulis' claims. They said that they ruled out a breach. However, given the evidence in Brulis' disclosure that NPR reviewed, he argues that there's suspicious activity that should be investigated further. In the days after requesting the formal investigation, it got even scarier.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

So, Aisha, I should also say that the NLRB told NPR that they did conduct an investigation into Brulis' claims. They said that they ruled out a breach. However, given the evidence in Brulis' disclosure that NPR reviewed, he argues that there's suspicious activity that should be investigated further. In the days after requesting the formal investigation, it got even scarier.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

So, Aisha, I should also say that the NLRB told NPR that they did conduct an investigation into Brulis' claims. They said that they ruled out a breach. However, given the evidence in Brulis' disclosure that NPR reviewed, he argues that there's suspicious activity that should be investigated further. In the days after requesting the formal investigation, it got even scarier.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

Brulis actually found a printed letter in an envelope taped to his door at home, a place he had only been living for two months, and that included a ton of sensitive personal information. It had photos of him walking his dog that appeared to be taken with a drone.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

Brulis actually found a printed letter in an envelope taped to his door at home, a place he had only been living for two months, and that included a ton of sensitive personal information. It had photos of him walking his dog that appeared to be taken with a drone.

Up First from NPR
A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE

Brulis actually found a printed letter in an envelope taped to his door at home, a place he had only been living for two months, and that included a ton of sensitive personal information. It had photos of him walking his dog that appeared to be taken with a drone.