Tucson Sentinel: Whistleblower: ‘Inaccurate statements’ to court put kids at risk as officials prepped Labor Day deportations
A federal whistleblower alleged a Trump administration official made "inaccurate statements" to a federal court, as part of the attempted deportation of around 600 Guatemalan and Honduran kids from the U.S. —including 69 from Arizona—over Labor Day weekend.
New York Times: Judge Blocks Administration From Immediately Removing Guatemalan Children
In a striking opinion, Judge Timothy J. Kelly, a Trump appointee, wrote that the government had misleadingly presented its actions as a “reunification” effort, bringing children back to their parents in Guatemala who it said had requested their return.
Los Angeles Times: The Trump administration’s attack on Social Security is looking worse
There’s some good news related to the Trump administration’s concerted attack on the Social Security Administration: Thus far, it doesn’t appear to have significantly affected the delivery of benefits. Checks are still going out and payments into beneficiaries’ bank accounts are still arriving on time. Beyond that, however, the system is going to hell.
New York Times: Whistle-Blower Account Contradicts Government’s Claims on Guatemalan Children
More than two dozen children from Guatemala whom the Trump administration sought to deport earlier this month had been flagged as vulnerable to child abuse and human trafficking in a Health and Human Services Department database that tracks unaccompanied children, according to a whistle-blower complaint filed to Congress on Tuesday.
The New Republic: The Attorney Who Refused to Help Trump Break the Law
Justice Department lawyer Erez Reuveni admitted that the Trump administration had made a mistake when it deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador. He was fired.
New York Times: Republican Senator Asks Social Security Agency About Whistle-Blower’s Claims
The chair of the Finance Committee sent the agency a letter inquiring about allegations that it had put the confidential personal information of Americans at risk.
Federal News Network: FEMA letter signers claim retaliation by DHS
Employees at the Federal Emergency Management Agency who signed a public dissent letter say the Department of Homeland Security violated whistleblower laws when placing them on administrative leave last week.
Newsweek: FEMA Employees File Whistleblower Complaints–‘Won’t Be Silenced’
The letter led by the Government Accountability Project asks for an investigation to be launched and once completed, "find that DHS has illegally retaliated against the FEMA whistleblowers and order immediate corrective action," including fully reinstating each worker to their jobs.
The Washington Post: Trump administration illegally retaliated against FEMA employees, legal experts say
Legal and whistleblower experts say the Department of Homeland Security violated federal law when it put more than 30 Federal Emergency Management Agency employees on leave last week after they signed an open letter of dissent about agency leadership. In a new letter obtained by The Washington Post, the Government Accountability Project is calling on federal lawmakers and oversight agencies to investigate what it calls “illegal retaliation.”
MSNBC: Fmr. Social Security boss: Trump & DOGE created ‘greatest theft of personal data in U.S. history’
Fmr. Governor Martin O’Malley (D-MD) joins MSNBC’s Ali Velshi to discuss DOGE employees unprecedented “pirating away” of Americans’ Social Security data and how it could lead to the “largest class action in American history.”
USA Today: DOGE put Social Security data of millions of Americans at risk, whistleblower says
DOGE's actions have effectively created "a live copy of the entire country’s Social Security information," lawyers for chief data officer Charles Borges alleged in the Aug. 26 complaint, which contends the information is on a server that lacks security oversight and a way to track who has accessed the data.
Wall Street Journal: Whistleblower Says DOGE Put Social Security Data at Risk
A top data officer with the Social Security Administration asserted in a whistleblower complaint that members of the Department of Government Efficiency uploaded an extensive Social Security database onto a cloud server, putting at risk the security of more than 300 million Americans' personal information.
Associated Press: After Trump’s DOGE action, 300 million people’s Social Security data is at risk, whistleblower says
Whistleblower Charles Borges, who worked as the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration since January, said the potential sensitive information that risks being released includes health diagnoses, income, banking information, familial relationships and personal biographic data.
MSNBC: Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering critical Social Security data
The whistleblower in this case is Charles Borges, the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer, who alleges that DOGE members copied the highly sensitive data without any kind of “independent security monitoring,” which in turn created “enormous vulnerabilities.”
CNN: DOGE put Americans’ Social Security records at risk, whistleblower says
Department of Government Efficiency employees at the Social Security Administration put the records of more than 300 million Americans at risk by creating a copy of the data in a vulnerable cloud computing server, the agency’s chief data officer said in a whistleblower complaint filed Tuesday.
The Hill: Wyden slams DOGE over ‘reckless’ handling of Social Security data
Top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee Ron Wyden (Ore.) blasted the DOGE cost-cutting panel following a whistleblower report that alleged Americans’ financial and personal information was put on an unsecured cloud server.
Federal News Network: SSA whistleblower warns of major security risk following DOGE data access
The top data official from the Social Security Administration is warning that the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency has put the Social Security information of more than 300 million Americans at risk of exposure to malicious actors.
The Independent: Whistleblower claims DOGE compromised Social Security data of hundreds of millions of Americans
Members of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency exposed Social Security data of more than 300 million Americans, putting personal information at risk of being leaked or hacked into, according to a bombshell whistleblower report.
The Hill: DOGE put Social Security data in ‘vulnerable cloud environment’: Whistleblower
According to the whistleblower report, SSA Chief Data Officer Chuck Borges “has become aware through reports to him of serious data security lapses, evidently orchestrated by DOGE officials, currently employed as SSA employees, that risk the security of over 300 million Americans’ Social Security data.”
NBC: DOGE put Social Security numbers and other data on a risky server, whistleblower alleges
The Department of Government Efficiency put the personal data of millions of Americans, including Social Security numbers, on a vulnerable server in June, according to a new whistleblower complaint.
