Anonymous
06/26/2025 09:16
Subject: DOGE takes back claims of fraud
Anonymous wrote:A former DOGE engineer shares his experience working for DOGE. Bottom line--he didn't see fraud and abuse, just waste that could be addressed with some modernization:
"I did not find the federal government to be rife with waste, fraud and abuse. I was expecting some more easy wins. I was hoping for opportunity to cut waste, fraud and abuse. And I do believe that there is a lot of waste. There's minimal amounts of fraud. And abuse, to me, feels relatively nonexistent. And the reason is — I think we have a bias as people coming from the tech industry where we worked at companies, you know, such as Google, Facebook, these companies that have plenty of money, are funded by investors and have lots of people kind of sitting around doing nothing.
The government has been under sort of a magnifying glass for decades. And so I think, generally, I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was. This isn't to say that it can't be made more efficient — elimination of paper, elimination of faxing — but these aren't necessarily fraud, waste and abuse. These are just rooms to modernize and improve the U.S. federal government into the 21st century.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/02/nx-s1-5417994/former-doge-engineer-shares-his-experience-working-for-the-cost-cutting-unit?mod=djemCapitalJournalDaybreak
This guy is actually really perceptive. There is waste but not outright fraud and abuse. And if he stayed in government he would eventually figure out that a lot of what looked like waste was actually government moving slowly so as not to break things - because unlike Silicon Valley we are not supposed to break things.
Anonymous
06/26/2025 09:05
Subject: DOGE takes back claims of fraud
The problem is the damage is done and Musky got what he wanted. They are getting all of the data and his businesses are no longer under investigation
Anonymous
06/26/2025 08:47
Subject: DOGE takes back claims of fraud
Anonymous wrote:A former DOGE engineer shares his experience working for DOGE. Bottom line--he didn't see fraud and abuse, just waste that could be addressed with some modernization:
"I did not find the federal government to be rife with waste, fraud and abuse. I was expecting some more easy wins. I was hoping for opportunity to cut waste, fraud and abuse. And I do believe that there is a lot of waste. There's minimal amounts of fraud. And abuse, to me, feels relatively nonexistent. And the reason is — I think we have a bias as people coming from the tech industry where we worked at companies, you know, such as Google, Facebook, these companies that have plenty of money, are funded by investors and have lots of people kind of sitting around doing nothing.
The government has been under sort of a magnifying glass for decades. And so I think, generally, I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was. This isn't to say that it can't be made more efficient — elimination of paper, elimination of faxing — but these aren't necessarily fraud, waste and abuse. These are just rooms to modernize and improve the U.S. federal government into the 21st century.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/02/nx-s1-5417994/former-doge-engineer-shares-his-experience-working-for-the-cost-cutting-unit?mod=djemCapitalJournalDaybreak
So, as we all suspected, they had no idea what they were doing.
They got their stolen data and contracts and covered up the appropriate crimes, so all is well that ends well?
Anonymous
06/26/2025 08:42
Subject: DOGE takes back claims of fraud
A former DOGE engineer shares his experience working for DOGE. Bottom line--he didn't see fraud and abuse, just waste that could be addressed with some modernization:
"I did not find the federal government to be rife with waste, fraud and abuse. I was expecting some more easy wins. I was hoping for opportunity to cut waste, fraud and abuse. And I do believe that there is a lot of waste. There's minimal amounts of fraud. And abuse, to me, feels relatively nonexistent. And the reason is — I think we have a bias as people coming from the tech industry where we worked at companies, you know, such as Google, Facebook, these companies that have plenty of money, are funded by investors and have lots of people kind of sitting around doing nothing.
The government has been under sort of a magnifying glass for decades. And so I think, generally, I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was. This isn't to say that it can't be made more efficient — elimination of paper, elimination of faxing — but these aren't necessarily fraud, waste and abuse. These are just rooms to modernize and improve the U.S. federal government into the 21st century.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/02/nx-s1-5417994/former-doge-engineer-shares-his-experience-working-for-the-cost-cutting-unit?mod=djemCapitalJournalDaybreak
"I did not find the federal government to be rife with waste, fraud and abuse. I was expecting some more easy wins. I was hoping for opportunity to cut waste, fraud and abuse. And I do believe that there is a lot of waste. There's minimal amounts of fraud. And abuse, to me, feels relatively nonexistent. And the reason is — I think we have a bias as people coming from the tech industry where we worked at companies, you know, such as Google, Facebook, these companies that have plenty of money, are funded by investors and have lots of people kind of sitting around doing nothing.
The government has been under sort of a magnifying glass for decades. And so I think, generally, I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was. This isn't to say that it can't be made more efficient — elimination of paper, elimination of faxing — but these aren't necessarily fraud, waste and abuse. These are just rooms to modernize and improve the U.S. federal government into the 21st century.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/02/nx-s1-5417994/former-doge-engineer-shares-his-experience-working-for-the-cost-cutting-unit?mod=djemCapitalJournalDaybreak
Anonymous
02/26/2025 11:08
Subject: DOGE takes back claims of fraud
Anonymous wrote:Nice. I mean, if you were paying attention you knew.
Sad part is a lot of people won't know they took it back, they just saw the initial headlines.
This might be a reason to delay reading headlines by a day or two. I hate to miss something important, but there also so much BS created by this administration.
Anonymous
02/26/2025 10:32
Subject: DOGE takes back claims of fraud
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Nice. I mean, if you were paying attention you knew.
Sad part is a lot of people won't know they took it back, they just saw the initial headlines.
This
Yes, this is why an astonishing number of Americans still believe Trump's debunked claims. There are too many for me to list here.