OPM Watchdog says

The Personnel administration office The general inspector of the incumbent inspector has confirmed that the independent office is investigating whether “emerging threats” have arisen for sensitive information as a result of this Elon Musks Dog Employees who introduce quick changes to protected state networks.

“The OPM OIG (office of the General Inspector) is obliged to observe the programs and operations of OPM independently and objectively” In a letter From March 7th to the democratic legislator and added that his office is not only legally obliged to examine OPM’s security protocols, but is also routinely based on “development of risks”. In the letter it was found that the office of the democratic legislator would fold specific requests into its “existing work” last month, and at the same time initiated a “new commitment” for potential risks at the agency that are connected to computer systems to which the United States Doge -Service was accessed or changed.

Vint, whose predecessor was released by Trump in January, is one of half a dozen deputy general inspectors forced by Democrats In the house committee for surveillance and government reform last month for investigation Reports by WIRED And Other outlets About Doges Efforts to gain access to a variety of record systems in which some of the most sensitive data of the government are geared, including personnel files over millions of government employees and their families.

“We are deeply concerned about the fact that the federal government does not appear in the federal government and that a major threat to the privacy of all Americans and for the national security of our nation could represent,” wrote Gerald Connolly, the ranking of the supervisory committee, on February 6th in a letter.

In addition to OPM, the Democrats have put similar security reviews under pressure in five other agencies, including in the financial department, the General Services Administration, the Small Business Administration, the US Agency for International Development and the Ministry of Education. However, Vint is the only watchdog in one of the named agencies that have been answered so far, says a spokesman for the WIRED committee.

During the minority in the house and the Senate, the Democrats have little power to carry out effective control outside of formal hearings that have to be called up by the Republicans. During his first term, Trump’s Ministry of Justice published guidelines in which the executive agencies were informed that they had no obligation to respond to Democrats.

The Republicans of the Congress have committed to the formal supervision of Doge’s work, decided instead Back channel With the billionaire on the effects of his anti-Personal cross train.

The federal authorities signed by the President at his first office indicated by the federal authorities to provide Musk employees with “complete and immediate access” for all non-classified recording systems in order to cause state cleaning of “fraud, waste and abuse”. However, it quickly became clear that Doges employees, many of them young engineers With direct connections to Musk’s own business, the most important data protection security pays little attention. For example, avoid, Mandatory reviews of new technologies that are installed in protected state networks.

“Some of the concerns you express in your letter with questions that the OPM OIG evaluates as part of our annual reviews of OPM -IT and Financial Systems, and we plan to include these concerns in these existing projects,” writes Vint in the letter of March 7. “We have just started an engagement for the evaluation of risks with new and modified information systems at OPM. We believe that our new commitment will ultimately answer many of your questions related to the integrity of OPM systems. “