An attorney for whistleblower Chuck Borges says that DOGE accessing Americans’ sensitive Social Security information is akin to “the fox guarding the henhouse” — as her client appeared on PBS NewsHour responding to the latest news about data mishandling at the Social Security Administration. The attorney goes on to say that the “government is lying to us” about DOGE’s malfeasance.
Borges, who was the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer until being forced to resign, told NewsHour that a court filing from the Trump administration confirms some of his worst fears about DOGE’s abuse of beneficiaries’ personal data. The interview comes on the heels of reporting last week that DOGE employees shared sensitive Social Security data with a third party to ‘overturn election results.’
Borges filed a formal complaint about DOGE malfeasance last summer, before being pushed out of SSA. His reporting flagged three specific concerns, which have now been partially validated by the recent court disclosure from the Trump administration’s very own Department of Justice (DOJ):
*DOGE employees were granted inappropriate access to SSA data.
*DOGE employees violated a temporary restraining order after sharing this data through “Voter Data Agreement” with an unnamed conservative advocacy group.
*DOGE employees uploaded sensitive Social Security data to an internet cloud server without adequate security controls.
Borges told PBS, “This court filing validates the first two...
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