Another day, another attack on Elon Musk’s DOGE team.
NPR, citing two anonymous sources, reported that two DOGE workers gained accounts on classified networks with nuclear secrets.
The networks are used by the National Security Administration (NNSA) in the Department of Energy (DOE).
“Two members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have been given accounts on classified networks that hold highly guarded details about America’s nuclear weapons, two independent sources tell NPR,” the government-funded outlet reported.
“Luke Farritor, a 23-year-old former SpaceX intern, and Adam Ramada, a Miami-based venture capitalist, have had accounts on the computer systems for at least two weeks, according to the sources who also have access to the networks. Prior to their work at DOGE, neither Farritor nor Ramada appear to have had experience with either nuclear weapons or handling classified information,” NPR reported.
The Department of Energy told NPR their reporting on this story was false.
“This reporting is false. No DOGE personnel have accessed these NNSA systems. The two DOGE individuals in question worked within the agency for several days and departed DOE in February,” a DOE spox told NPR.
NPR claimed the two sources saw Farritor and Ramada in the directory but that doesn’t mean they have access to sensitive nuclear secrets.
CNN reported a version of this story in February.
“Farritor was granted access to basic IT including email and Microsoft 365, one of the people said. The chief information office only does a small amount of IT and cybersecurity work for the National Nuclear Security Administration, they said, including providing connectivity and running basic internet services for NNSA’s headquarters. It does not run IT systems for the nuclear agency’s labs controlling the nation’s nuclear stockpile,” CNN reported earlier this year.
CNBC also floated this bogus story in February.
Secretary of Energy Chris Wright set the record straight.
“I’ve heard these rumors. They’re like seeing our nuclear secrets. None of that is true at all,” Chris Wright told CNBC earlier this year.
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