The highlights were familiar to any left-wing critic of American power: The U.S. Agency for International Development’s involvement in the Southeast Asian heroin trade in the 1970s. The Central Intelligence Agency’s infiltration of the American left.

Several federal agencies have advised employees not to respond to Elon Musk’s email demanding federal workers list five accomplishments from the past week or risk losing their jobs. The email

Key federal agencies such as the FBI, State Department and Pentagon have instructed their employees not to comply with Elon Musk’s latest demand that they explain what they accomplished last week or risk losing their job.

The CIA is conducting a damage assessment after an unclassified email sent to the White House listed officers, including undercover agents, for potential redundancies. The breach raises security concerns,

This is how you sever the positive relationship between people and government—ensuring there’s nothing left to defend.

Their concerns proved prescient, and today, Scattered Castles remains segregated from OPM’s systems—fortunately, given recent reports that Musk’s team has connected its own server to OPM’s systems, which could open a gateway for foreign hackers to again burrow in.

Elon Musk, steals the USAID lunch back from the biggest, meanest bully on the playground, the CIA. A great plot. Better yet, the fantasy dragons are real, and so is Saint George. Letters to the editor are published in the order in which they are received ...

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has sparked concerns within the intelligence community after it posted information about an agency to its website.

Musk might also take aim at NASA’s other contracts to serve his interests. Last year, for example, he attacked Boeing over its Starliner program. Some of the many young programmers in DOGE, such as Luke Farritor and Marko Elez, already have connections to SpaceX.

President Donald Trump announced that he told billionaire Elon Musk to hire an additional 45 new DOGE agents to manage and audit the FBI, CIA, and Pentagon. Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency is now focusing on some of the biggest projects the government has going on, after starting by looking at programs that didn’t cost much.