DOGE Now Has Access to the Top US Cybersecurity Agency

> I don’t like to think in conspiratorial ways. But DOGE currently has far deeper and far more extensive access to U.S. government computer systems — and is far deeper into the national security space — than is conceivably necessary for anything related to their notional brief and goals. I don’t just mean this about the front-facing notional goals of making the federal government “efficient.” I mean it as well in the most sinister versions of the group’s goals — hollowing out the federal bureaucracy, destroying oversight agencies which pose threats to Musk’s business interests, building centralized command and control over budgets, employment, personal data, etc., etc.

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> WIRED is [now reporting](https://www.wired.com/story/doge-cisa-coristine-cybersecurity/) that two DOGE operatives, including the 19-year-old Edward Coristine (aka “Big Balls”), have gained access to the computer systems of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the agency charged with the defense of the federal government’s civilian computer networks as well as helping to organize the defense of the country’s critical infrastructure.

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> I don’t know what the goal is here. I could speculate. But it would just be speculation. But it’s way more than just the version of the story that we’re now hearing. Atlantic has this piece [describing the level and scope of access](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/doge-god-mode-access/681719/) in similar terms.

Josh Marshall’s thoughts:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-dives-into-core-national-defense-and-data-systems-across-government

That nazi child looking twink with the fuckboy haircut?