Dan Berulis NLRB whistleblower

In the Jan. 29 fatal crash between a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and American Airlines passenger jet, which is still under investigation, one controller was handing both commercial airline and helicopter traffic at the busy airport.

The employees were fired “without cause nor based on performance or conduct,” Spero said, and the emails were “from an ‘exec order’ Microsoft email address” — not a government email address. A copy of the termination email that was provided to the AP shows the sending address “ASK_AHR_EXEC_Orders@usfaa.mail.outlook.com.”

He added, “When DOGE fired me, they turned off my computer and wiped all of my files without warning.”

Among the most significant changes include dissolving the Foreign Malign Influence Center, National Counterproliferation and Biosecurity Center, and Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center with their functions folded into ODNI's Mission Integration directorate and the National Intelligence Council.

The National Counterterrorism Center, under newly confirmed director Joe Kent,

“CISA is making every effort to individually contact all impacted individuals,” the message reads, adding that fired employees who believe they fall under the court’s order to “please reach out.” Per the website notice, CISA is asking affected former staffers to email a “password protected attachment that provides your full name, your dates of employment (including date of termination), and one other identifying factor such as date of birth or social security number

laid-off employees also include staffers who worked for CISA’s Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT), which is responsible for penetration testing and vulnerability management of networks belonging to U.S. federal government departments and agencies

This is by our count the third known round of job cuts to affect CISA employees since January 20. More than 130 CISA employees were cut by DOGE earlier in February,

Ge0rg3’s code is “open source,” in that anyone can copy it and reuse it non-commercially. As it happens, there is a newer version of this project that was derived or “forked” from Ge0rg3’s code — called “async-ip-rotator” — and it was committed to GitHub in January 2025 by DOGE captain Marko Elez. Original code: https://github.com/Ge0rg3/requests-ip-rotator Forked: https://github.com/markoelez/async-ip-rotator Code is pretty much the same, with comments removed, some `async` sprinkled in and minor changes (I bet this was just pasted into LLM with prompt to make it async, but if that worked why not). Except... Original GPL3 license is gone. Obviously not something you would expect DOGE people to understand or respect

The repository has been deleted. In addition, 26 other repos have been removed from the account. This is in line with DOGE members' quick response scrubbing data whenever put into spotlight, as previously seen with another "teen hacker". [0] Archived repo page: https://archive.ph/LI7tt; archived previous repo count: https://archive.ph/tgkg5 0. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/i-no-longer-hack... progval 3 months ago | root | parent | next [–] Archived repository: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory... You can download it as a Git repository from https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/vault/git-bare/sw...

OGE’s unprecedented access to the most sensitive information about tens of millions of people across the country has resulted in at least 16 lawsuits that allege violations of six privacy protections — the most common being the Privacy Act of 1974 — across eight federal agencies.

DOGE has given conflicting information about what data it has accessed, who has that access, and most importantly — why.

In one order last week blocking DOGE's access to Social Security data, U.S. District Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander of Maryland said the government "never identified or articulated even a single reason for which the DOGE Team needs unlimited access to SSA's entire record systems, thereby exposing personal, confidential, sensitive, and private information that millions of Americans entrusted to their government."

On Monday, a federal judge in Maryland temporarily halted DOGE from accessing data of millions of union members in a lawsuit against the Office of Personnel Management, the Treasury Department and Education Department after finding the agencies shared private information with DOGE affiliates "who had no need to know the vast amount of sensitive personal information to which they were granted access."

In the Social Security Administration lawsuit, Hollander found several DOGE staffers "were granted access to SSA systems before their background checks were completed or their inter-agency detail agreements were finalized." One of those is Bobba, who was given access to the master data warehouse at SSA that includes the Master Beneficiary Record, Supplemental Security Record and Numident files containing "extensive information about anyone with a social security number," according to filings in the case.

Not even lawyers for the government can account for when and how DOGE staffers received access to sensitive databases. In a Labor Department lawsuit, Judge John D. Bates notes that "defendants themselves acknowledge inconsistencies across their evidence" regarding DOGE

sent an email with a spreadsheet containing PII to two United States General Services Administration officials," according to an audit of his email account submitted in one court filing.

"a real possibility exists that sensitive information has already been shared outside of the Treasury Department, in potential violation of federal law."

Members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) paid a visit to Washington D.C. headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board this morning to meet with agency leadership, following a whistleblower report alleging that DOGE misappropriated sensitive case information regarding labor disputes from the agency, according to two people familiar with the meeting

acting NLRB general counsel William Cowen told agency staffers in an email Tuesday afternoon that DOGE has not been in contact with the agency, and that the agency does not have evidence to support the whistleblower’s claims. “The NLRB has had no official contact with any DOGE personnel. We have not granted DOGE access to any agency systems, nor has DOGE requested access to agency system… At this point in time, we have no evidence of any unauthorized or unusual activity on agency systems,”

“All I know is that two to three people from DOGE are meeting with agency heads right now,”

confirming that the meeting had taken place and announcing that DOGE will continue to be involved at the agency for the foreseeable future. “Two DOGE representatives will be detailed to the agency from GSA part-time for several months,”

acting NLRB general counsel William Cowen told agency staffers in an email Tuesday afternoon that DOGE has not been in contact with the agency, and that the agency does not have evidence to support the whistleblower’s claims. “The NLRB has had no official contact with any DOGE personnel. We have not granted DOGE access to any agency systems, nor has DOGE requested access to agency system… At this point in time, we have no evidence of any unauthorized or unusual activity on agency systems

Officials were given hours to fire hundreds of employees, and workers were shut out of email as termination notices arrived. The terminations were part of a broader group of dismissals at the Department of Energy, where reportedly more than a thousand federal workers were terminated.

civilian agency that conducts a wide variety of nuclear security missions, including servicing the nation's nuclear weapons when they're not on missiles and bombers, and making extensive safety and security upgrades of the warheads.

Some workers were responsible for making sure emergency response plans were in place at sites like a giant facility in Texas, where thousands of dismantled warheads are stored. Others worked to prevent terrorists and rogue nations from acquiring weapons-grade plutonium or uranium. Many had "Q" clearances, the highest level security clearance at the Department of Energy.

In the final days leading up to the firings, managers drew up lists of essential workers and pleaded to keep them.

Multiple current and former employees at the agency told NPR that scores of people were notified verbally they were fired. Many had to clear out their desks on the spot. "It broke my heart," says one employee who was among those who left the agency's Washington, D.C., headquarters.

The NNSA termination letter did not appear to make any specific reference to the highly-classified nuclear mission conducted by the agency.

But others at the agency who were told they were terminated never received written notification.

Nuclear security is highly specialized, high-pressure work, but it's not particularly well paid, one employee told NPR. Given what's unfolded over the past 24 hours, "why would anybody want to take these jobs?" they asked.

Despite having the words "National" and "Security" in its title, it was not getting an exemption for national security, managers at the agency were told last Friday, according to an employee at NNSA

Just days before, officials in leadership had scrambled to write descriptions for the roughly 300 probationary employees at the agency who had joined the federal workforce less than two years ago.

Managers were given just 200 characters to explain why the jobs these workers did mattered.

"Per OPM [Office of Personnel Management] instructions, DOE finds that your further employment would not be in the public interest,"

Establishes a "disinterested observer" standard for evaluating the validity of disclosures that evidence violations of law, gross mismanagement, gross waste of funds, an abuse of authority, or a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety.

Provides that a whistleblower cannot be deprived of WPA coverage unless the President removes the whistleblower's agency from coverage prior to a challenged personnel action taken against the whistleblower.

to require the Office of Special Counsel to show that the whistleblower's protected disclosure was a significant motivating factor in the decision to take an adverse action

Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB),

(Sec. 110) Extends whistleblower protections to any current or prospective federal employee for disclosures that such employee reasonably believes are evidence of censorship related to research, analysis, or technical information.

(Sec. 111) Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide that a permissible use of independently obtained infrastructure information includes the disclosure of such information for whistleblower purposes.

(Sec. 113) Authorizes the Special Counsel to appear as amicus curiae in whistleblower actions.

Veterans Affairs (VA) tasked by the Trump Administration with slashing its headcount by approximately 80,000 employees have been required to sign gag orders that may be unlawful.

Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act requires gag orders for federal employees to include a mandatory statement that employee communications with Congress and Inspectors General are protected, explicitly prohibiting agencies from implementing or enforcing gag orders on potential whistleblowers.

For more than a century, Congress has safeguarded and championed the ability of federal employees to report waste, fraud, and abuse within the Executive Branch directly to Congress and other federal watchdogs.  It is imperative that these courageous truthtellers are able to expose misconduct without fear of retaliation or reprisal.

“The North faces existential threats as countries try to take advantage of new shipping routes opened by climate change, exploit our critical minerals, and encroach on our borders,” the plan says. “We will keep Canada strong, free, and sovereign.”

Half of the spending will go to new military equipment and weapons for the Canadian Armed Forces, such as submarines and icebreakers to monitor and protect coastlines, including in the Arctic, against Russian and Chinese aggression. This includes new drones for its seas and skies.

Much of the new spending will be used to bolster Canada’s North, to deter the influence of China, which has been attempting to make inroads with Indigenous communities in the Arctic.

On Friday, his party released more details of a plan that promises NORAD upgrades and a new permanent Arctic military base in Iqaluit, the capital and largest community in Nunavut. The party also promises to build back another base in Inuvik, about 125 miles north of the Arctic Circle in Canada’s Northwest Territories, to enable “quick interceptions of Russian and Chinese incursions.”

I will say to the Americans that if we can get a rapid conclusion to this ridiculous trade dispute in a way that protects our sovereignty, ends the tariffs, then I will put all the proceeds of that additional trade to work rebuilding our armed forces for a change

America’s unjustified and reckless trade war threatens Canadian jobs, businesses, and our way of life. ... In the face of this threat, we have a plan to build the strongest economy in the G7,” Carney said.

The party also wants to build new trading relationships with Europe and Asia, while eyeing new trade deals with MERCOSUR, the South American regional economic integration bloc, and ASEAN, a regional group of 10 Southeast Asian countries

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(ii) the risk would be faced by the person in every part of that country and is not faced generally by other individuals in or from that country,

unless imposed in disregard of accepted international standards,

the risk is not caused by the inability of that country to provide adequate health or medical care.

the person is unable or, because of that risk, unwilling to avail themself of the protection of that country,

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