In possibly one of the funniest moments yet in the very short—yet fruitful—history of DOGE, CNN got an epic response to its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking information about Elon Musk’s government security clearance: “Good luck with that.”
CNN staffers submitted the request to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) asking “for records related to the security clearances of Musk and anyone from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) who has been granted access to sensitive or classified government networks.” In return, they got an email telling them: “Good luck with that, they just fired the whole privacy team.”
It would seem that the aforementioned DOGE had just notified several OPM staffers, some of whom may deal with “privacy” issues such as security clearances, that their services would no longer be necessary going…
