(via Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Is Dead at 92 - The New York Times)
Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst who after experiencing a sobbing antiwar epiphany on a bathroom floor made the momentous decision in 1971 to disclose a secret history of American lies and deceit in Vietnam, what came to be known as the Pentagon Papers, died on Friday at his home in Kensington, Calif., in the Bay Area. He was 92.
Social Security whistleblower who claims DOGE mishandled Americans' sensitive data resigns from post
By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Days after filing a whistleblower complaint claiming that the Department of Government Efficiency put Americans’
By AAMER MADHANI
Updated 11:14 AM CDT, August 30, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Social Security whistleblower whose complaint alleged that Department of Government Efficiency officials mishandled Americans’ sensitive information says he’s resigning because of actions taken against him since making the claim.
Charles Borges, the agency’s chief data officer, alleged that more than 300 million Americans’ Social Security data was put at risk by DOGE officials who uploaded sensitive information to a cloud account not subject to oversight. His disclosure was submitted to the special counsel’s office on Tuesday.
In a letter to SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano, Borges claimed that since filing the complaint, the agency’s actions make his duties “impossible to perform legally and ethically” and have caused him “physical, mental and emotional distress.”
“After reporting internally to management and externally to regulators, serious data and security and integrity concerns impacting our citizens’ most sensitive personal data, I have suffered exclusion, isolation, internal strife, and a culture of fear, creating a hostile work environment and making work conditions intolerable,” Borges added.
The Government Accountability Project, which is representing him in his whistleblower case, posted Borges’ resignation letter on its website Friday evening. Borges declined to comment.
“He no longer felt that he could continue to work for the Social Security Administration in good conscience, given what he had witnessed,” his attorney Andrea Meza said in a statement. She added that Borges would continue to work with the proper oversight bodies on the matter.
In his whistleblower’s complaint, Borges said the potentially sensitive information put at risk by DOGE’s actions includes health diagnoses, income, banking information, familial relationships and personal biographic data.
“Should bad actors gain access to this cloud environment, Americans may be susceptible to widespread identity theft, may lose vital healthcare and food benefits, and the government may be responsible for re-issuing every American a new Social Security Number at great cost,” said the complaint.
Borges had served as the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer since January.
The SSA declined to comment on Borges’ resignation or allegations against the agency in his letter to colleagues.
President Donald Trump’s DOGE has faced scrutiny as it received unprecedented access from the Republican administration to troves of personal data across the government under the mandate of eliminating waste, fraud and abuse.
Labor and retiree groups sued SSA earlier this year for allowing DOGE to access Americans’ sensitive agency data, though a divided appeals panel decided this month that DOGE could access the information.
Tumblr is so focused on very particular types of activism and awareness, I'm shocked I haven't seen anything on the fact that a notoriously healthy 45 year old whistle-blower against Boeing has died of a sudden severe infection recently, marking him to be the second sudden and suspicious death this year who was a whistle-blower.
Previous workers who've raised suspicions in person have recalled getting death threats.
This man was fired in 2023 for raising his suspicions and making them public, and is now dead. Joshua Dean is the second we know of to die for coming out about these faulty and defected planes.
This isn't boeings first rodeo. They've killed hundreds before. We can't let them do it again.
The acting director of national intelligence consulted the Justice Department about the whistleblower complaint before deciding to withhold it.
The acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, is withholding a whistleblower complaint alleging serious wrongdoing within the intelligence community that may involve President Donald Trump, the House Intelligence Committee revealed on Friday.
The House panel has subpoenaed Maguire to turn over the complaint.
Notably, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff disclosed that Maguire consulted the Justice Department about the whistleblower complaint, which is a major departure from the norm.
Maguire's office also refused to comment on whether the White House was involved in the decision to withhold the complaint, and whether the complaint relates to any matters being investigated by Schiff's committee.
"The Committee can only conclude, based on this remarkable confluence of factors, that the serious misconduct at issue involves the President of the United States and/or other senior White House or Administration officials," Schiff said.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is withholding a whistleblower complaint alleging serious wrongdoing within the intelligence community that may involve President Donald Trump or senior administration officials, the House Intelligence Committee disclosed on Friday.
California Rep. Adam Schiff, the chairman of the committee, subpoenaed the acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Joseph Maguire, to turn over the complaint on Friday evening.
"A month ago, a whistleblower within the intelligence community lawfully filed a complaint regarding a serious or flagrant problem, abuse, violation of law, or deficiency within the responsibility or authority of the Director of National Intelligence," Schiff said in a statement. The Intelligence Community Inspector General (IC IG) determined that the complaint was credible and a matter of "urgent concern."
The IC IG first notified the committee of the whistleblower complaint on September 9. The next day, Schiff requested a full, unredacted copy of the complaint, the IC IG's findings related to the matter, and all records connected to the ODNI's involvement, "including any and all correspondence with other Executive Branch actors including the White House."
Schiff said the acting DNI was required by law to turn over the complaint to congressional intelligence committees more than ten days ago but refuses to do so.
The ODNI officially declined the committee's request on Friday and said Maguire is withholding the complaint in part because it "involves confidentially and potentially privileged communications by persons outside the Intelligence Community."
Schiff said it's unclear "whether this decision to withhold the disclosure was made only by you, or whether it involved interference by other parties, including the White House."
Notably, Schiff revealed that Maguire consulted the Justice Department about the whistleblower complaint, which is a major departure from the norm. He also disclosed that the ODNI refused to comment on whether the White House was involved in the decision to withhold the whistleblower complaint, and whether the complaint relates to any matters being investigated by the committee.
"The Committee can only conclude, based on this remarkable confluence of factors, that the serious misconduct at issue involves the President of the United States and/or other senior White House or Administration officials," Schiff said. He added that the ODNI's actions raise "serious concerns" that the complaint is being withheld specifically to shield Trump or other administration officials.
