<p>The White House is calling out what it says is &#8220;another hoax&#8221; after the media and at least one Democrat in Congress perpetuated allegations that the Trump administration&#8217;s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was releasing classified information.</p>
<p>It started on Friday with the left-leaning HuffPost <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-doge-posts-classified-data_n_67ae646de4b0513a8d767112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reporting</a> that DOGE, which is led by technology entrepreneur Elon Musk, was posting to its new website classified information about the size and staff at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).</p>
<p>An unnamed Defense Intelligence Agency employee claimed DOGE posted &#8220;secret&#8221; data, resulting in people &#8220;scrambling to check if their info has been accessed.&#8221; Anonymous Senate aides claimed NRO&#8217;s headcount and budget were classified over concerns about foreign adversaries taking advantage of it.</p>
<p>Upon initial publication, HuffPo&#8217;s report quoted an NRO spokesperson deferring questions about the data to DOGE. HuffPo&#8217;s story also said the White House did not immediately return a request for comment. It was updated later, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250214193329/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-doge-posts-classified-data_n_67ae646de4b0513a8d767112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">after publication</a>, with a White House denial.</p>
<p>Other news outlets picked up on the report. <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-doge-website-worries-intelligence-officials-by-posting-classified-information/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Beast</a> re-aggregated it. ABC News also pursued the story, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/agency-data-shared-doge-online-sparks-concern-intelligence/story?id=118858837" target="_blank" rel="noopener">citing</a> its own intelligence community sources who asserted that what DOGE did likely represented a significant breach. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) also pushed the notion.</p>
<p>&#8220;Yesterday, the DOGE guys post classified information on their website, and they had to realize, oh, we didn&#8217;t realize that agency was a classified agency. You shouldn&#8217;t let people run rampage through offices that have classified information,&#8221; he <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1891156990568640556" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on &#8220;Fox News Sunday.&#8221;</p>
<p>But, as former House investigator and journalist Jerry Dunleavy <a href="https://x.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1890803265643639277" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed</a> out in a series of posts on X, the NRO headcount information is publicly available on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) <a href="https://www.fedscope.opm.gov/ibmcognos/bi/v1/disp?b_action=powerPlayService&amp;m_encoding=UTF-8&amp;BZ=1AAABnsT72MN42oVOsW6DQAz9mTNph0Y_wyVhYIDjUBiANLBXlFzSqsBFcB3y9xUwpFWGvidL9vN7lp2yWJdVcVRpHIzWDDqNn4DocyNI4jZU6PncQ0%7EtfIHRZiO5UKREtAWiZ2fKqvAo94ew2gdASWN6q3sLlJxNe9IDiAg87OtOgxuvDnXzVV%7E0_Ka6a2tune7tCkQMlFyXzV%7E73QWEL0Aov4dhmTLT248p68SlXMsiz5Ws0iLPw0wF%7E_Wc6DU4IzKOiJwjYwyZQEbIJjIWXnTf3IAQ6ASEYdsC_pkZ7eMpQJ8B7YBcBNIc6B3IXwR_F9gMIHey%7EwKfOXfLO3MtTyz4AbZLbJc%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> and DOGE says on its site that workforce data comes from OPM.</p>
<p>&#8220;DOGE even says under “Sources” that it’s pulling its data from OPM’s publicly available data set as of March 2024,&#8221; he said. &#8220;OPM posted then NRO has 1,097 employees. DOGE posts now NRO has 1,097 employees. So… is the claim here that OPM has been publicly posting classified info for years?&#8221;</p>
<p>An email from White House Principal Deputy Communications Director Alex Pfeiffer said the &#8220;controversy&#8221; is really just DOGE reformatting data that is already publicly available and denying that there was a &#8220;breach&#8221; of sensitive information.</p>
<p>“DOGE is sharing OPM data from under the Biden administration,&#8221; Pfeiffer said in a statement. &#8220;The headcount for this agency is publicly available on OPM’s website. These attacks are just another hoax meant to undermine the great work the Trump Administration is doing.&#8221;</p>

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