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Performing Rating Member Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) of the Home Oversight Committee has despatched a letter to the CEO of Microsoft demanding all paperwork and knowledge associated to DOGE’s try and take away information from the Nationwide Labor Relations Board.
The letter was despatched to Microsoft as a result of DOGE, whereas attempting to open backdoors into the NLRB system and export information, used Microsoft’s GitHub platform to retailer code that was written by a DOGE engineer, so Home Democrats, as a part of their investigation, need entry to every part DOGE saved on Microsoft’s platform.
Rep. Lynch wrote:
It has come to my consideration that Microsoft could also be in possession of the one present information documenting a critical case of technology-related misconduct on the Nationwide Labor Relations Board (NLRB). In accordance with latest reporting by the Nationwide Public Radio (NPR) and whistleblower disclosures obtained by Democrats on the Home Committee on Oversight and Authorities Reform, people related to the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) have tried to make use of high-level methods entry to take away delicate info—quitepossibly together with company secrets and techniques and particulars of union actions.
The whistleblower has additionally defined how the accountable people have tried to hide their actions, impede oversight, and protect themselves from accountability, together with by deleting system logs and opening again doorways into the NLRB case administration system to ship large quantities of information outdoors of the company.
