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Have the DOGE TraitorTots Helped Russia Start a Cyberwar?

A whistleblower from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has evidence that DOGE has exposed the U.S. to a Russian cyber attack

15 min readMay 9, 2025

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A whistleblower from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has evidence that the United States is now vulnerable to a Russian cyber attack as a direct result of DOGE activities.

TraitorTot Marko Elez in a cloud of blue and white smoke
Photo of TraitorTot Marko Elez by Xy1231321, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons; Background image by by Tom Roberts on Unsplash; Image smashup by author

More than that, according to the whistleblower, who I’ll call Dan, numerous attempts may have already been made from inside Russia to log in to NLRB cloud servers using valid credentials shortly after DOGE was granted access to the top layers of the NLRB computer systems.

In other words, someone in Russia may now have all the user names and passwords they needed to claw their way into part of the American government’s computer network infrastructure.

Dan is the whistleblower’s real name. He doesn’t hide his full name from view in formal complaint documents he sent to the Senate (PDF source), specifically Tom Cotton, Chairman, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Mark Warner, Vice-Chairman, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. But I’ll keep calling him Dan to limit the ease of publicizing this brave soul’s name, even though it’s…

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Charles Bastille
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Written by Charles Bastille

Author of MagicLand & Psalm of Vampires. Join me on my Substack at https://www.ruminato.com/. All stories © 2020-24 by Charles Bastille

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