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U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Vows to Prosecute Individuals Who Targeted Musk’s DOGE Employees

Edward Martin, President Trump’s interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia vowed on Monday to prosecute any “individuals and/or groups” who broke the law by targeting employees of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

On Sunday, the tech magazine, Wired, doxxed six of Musk’s DOGE employees, calling them too young and inexperienced to help Musk reform the government. Threats on social media soon followed.

Numerous posts on Reddit and Blue Sky called for harassment and/or violence against the men, whose ages range from 19 to 25.

One Reddit subgroup even called for the public execution of the young, but highly qualified DOGE software engineers.

“We are in contact with the FBI and other law enforcement partners to proceed rapidly,” Martin stated. “We also have our prosecutors preparing,” he added.

Earlier Monday, Martin wrote a letter to Musk letting him know that his office would “pursue legal action against anyone who impedes your work or threatens your people.”

“We will not act like the previous administration who looked the other way when Antifa or BLM thugs trashed our capital city. We will protect DOGE and other workers no matter what,” he wrote. Martin asked Musk to refer “questionable conduct” to his office for potential investigation.

 

Musk said “thank you” in a post on X in response to Martin’s message.

The US attorney’s strong response also follows a report that USAID security officials tried to block DOGE employees from gaining access to potentially incriminating information.

Senior officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) were placed on administrative leave after they refused to turn over classified material to teams from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Officials spoke with The Associated Press on Sunday to say USAID members were eventually unsuccessful and DOGE teams were able to gain access to some of the agency’s classified information, including intelligence reports.

John Voorhees and deputy Brian McGill were the two employees that believed they were legally obligated to deny DOGE teams access after they didn’t have a high enough security clearance. They refused to allow the DOGE employees in and threatened to call U.S. Marshalls.

A career Treasury Department official also previously attempted to block the DOGE team from gaining access to the agency’s payment system. That official, a career civil servant named David Lebryk, was reportedly put on leave after the dispute, and then suddenly retired on Friday.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave the DOGE employees access to the federal payment system late on Friday, allowing Elon Musk and the team to monitor and potentially limit government spending, the New York Times reported.

The American Federation of Government Employees and other government unions sued the Treasury Department on Monday, seeking to prevent DOGE from accessing Treasury’s data.

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About Debra Heine

Debra Heine is a conservative Catholic mom of six and longtime political pundit. She has written for several conservative news websites over the years, including Breitbart and PJ Media.

Photo: WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 05: Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Co-Chair of the newly announced Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), arrives on Capitol Hill on December 05, 2024 in Washington, DC. Musk and his Co-Chair, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy are meeting with lawmakers today about DOGE, a planned presidential advisory commission with the goal of cutting government spending and increasing efficiency in the federal workforce. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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