Stephen Fowler
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Court filings say the Doge employees were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to overturn election results.
That potentially violates the law preventing government employees from using their jobs for political purposes.
The matter is now in the hands of the Office of Special Counsel.
This update is one of many revisions to testimony made last year by Social Security Administration officials in a case over Doge data access.
The document also reveals Doge employees may have inappropriately transferred sensitive data outside the organization, both through email and an unauthorized third-party server.
the DOJ has failed to fully meet a deadline set by a law signed by President Trump.
The relatively few documents that have been made public have extensive redactions, and the government also says some of what's released should not be trusted.
While there's no public estimate of how many files remain or when they'll be made public, according to some emails released in the files, the number of documents collected as evidence in the criminal investigation into Epstein alone is well north of a million.
Well, the Justice Department says it's working on it, and there could be well over a million more pages to come.
They say they're taking time to review and redact information to protect victims required by the law.
What we do have is about 40,000 pages, most of them redacted in ways that make them unreadable, and there's very little new information.
Here's one example.
I found a file that blacked out part of the zip code of the very public U.S.
Attorney's Office in New York City, plus hundreds of pages completely blanked out with no explanation.
And at some point, the DOJ is supposed to explain to Congress what's under those black boxes and why they haven't shared it.
Speaking of sharing, these new files are posted publicly but aren't organized in any sort of chronological or contextual order in a way that's led to numerous controversies and conspiracies swirling about in the absence of full files and full transparency into what we're looking at.
Such as what?
Well, there are some documents made public that are fake but are included because, under the definition of the law, they are files related to the investigation that are supposed to be released.