US Institute of Peace says DOGE has broken into its building
Source: Politico
WASHINGTON (AP) Employees of Elon Musks Department of Government Efficiency have entered the U.S. Institute of Peace despite protests from the nonprofit that it is not part of the executive branch and is instead an independent agency.
The organizations CEO, George Moose, said, DOGE has broken into our building. Police cars were outside the Washington building Monday evening.
The DOGE workers gained access to the building after several unsuccessful attempts Monday and after having been turned away on Friday, a senior U.S. Institute of Peace official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.
It was not immediately clear what the DOGE staffers were doing or looking for in the nonprofits building, which is across the street from the State Department in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood.
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Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/17/us-institute-of-peace-says-doge-has-broken-into-its-building-00234639
Ron Filipkowski post on Bluesky:
The USIP is a non-profit that does work exposing threats posed by China to neighboring countries like Taiwan and many others. The Chinese Communist Party is a major business partner of Elon Musk. They have information the CCP would like to have. This is not good.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-03-17T22:14:10.756Z
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
The USIP is a non-profit that does work exposing threats posed by China to neighboring countries like Taiwan and many others. The Chinese Communist Party is a major business partner of Elon Musk. They have information the CCP would like to have. This is not good.
paleotn
(21,404 posts)And I won't she one damn tear.
Irish_Dem
(79,377 posts)Treason.
hlthe2b
(112,626 posts)Somehow I doubt anyone in the Institute for Peace are going to fire back on these cretins... and the DC police are undoubtedly cowed by the jurisdictional issues. They should have gone to court after last week's attempts.
electric_blue68
(25,619 posts)sakabatou
(45,707 posts)Baitball Blogger
(51,636 posts)Wicked Blue
(8,409 posts)It would depend on the city laws, city prosecutors and city police.
IronLionZion
(50,728 posts)They think peace is "fraud, waste, and abuse"
LymphocyteLover
(9,301 posts)Trump mob
orangecrush
(28,082 posts)Arrest and charge the bastards!!!!
SSJVegeta
(2,240 posts)orangecrush
(28,082 posts)That sucks.
radical noodle
(10,468 posts)which will be repeated at midnight.
SSJVegeta
(2,240 posts)electric_blue68
(25,619 posts)The DC Police arrived, and threw out the IOP employees.
But don't Quote me. I woke straight up hearing that- going.. WHAT?!!!
SunSeeker
(57,441 posts)Someone needs to sue DC Police!
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)Trumphumpers on the DC Police got to the other DC cops.........
At the insurection/sedition we saw many officers allow them to advance, some even moving barricades and standing aside....
We have no idea how far they have infiltrated the DC Cops, the Capitol Police Cops, the Secret Service, the National Guard, the Secret Service, and the U.S. Military...........
electric_blue68
(25,619 posts)DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)how the best time to get the facts is by watching it as it happens, before the video disappears, never to be seen again???????
There was some fascinating live Video of the Chinese boarding up a four story biological research lab when the Covid news was first occurring....It was in the same area of the meat market selling bats. The story said the 100 people working in the building had been rounded up and "taken away"?????...........That was never shown again, that I saw.....
electric_blue68
(25,619 posts)I saw it. Now it's gone..... I know I saw it.
Gah!
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)Scientists World Wide, were working on getting other Nations, (even enemy nations), money and guidelines on how to make their labs safe.....for the sake of humanity. That particular lab was one they were trying to get up to acceptable standards.....And then Trump released a tsunami of pure bullshit to discredit Fauci and all of the scientist's funding and their projects world wide......Along with the NCDC and World Health Organization......
electric_blue68
(25,619 posts)a quarter of a million or more deaths.
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)more than 500,000+ additional deaths with DeSantis, Abbott, and other Red States Governors burying the true numbers and/or not even counting.........
electric_blue68
(25,619 posts)😞
electric_blue68
(25,619 posts)I wasn't asleep obviously but my energy was closer to this : ..........., then suddenly it was: WHAT! 😮
ancianita
(42,763 posts)federal building, and forced the IOP people out.
SSJVegeta
(2,240 posts)Perhaps some good citizens should set up some more robust private security.
ancianita
(42,763 posts)Democracy Forward is representing a number of cases for entities getting the DOGE treatment, so we'll have to be as patient as the plaintiffs about this stuff.
SSJVegeta
(2,240 posts)Since these are literally federal agencies being taken over by a hostile force.
ancianita
(42,763 posts)SSJVegeta
(2,240 posts)My brain is kinda... losing it 😆
ancianita
(42,763 posts)SSJVegeta
(2,240 posts)ancianita
(42,763 posts)One way to withstand it all is to take the information one day at a time, slot it away as either dated digital notes, or whatever helps; there are timelines developing of what's been going on during this first 100 days, anyway. Others will handle the record of this time. We just need to keep an eye on the future in the interests of children, the poor, and just try to alleviate suffering if/when we can.
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)there is supposed to be a warrant, signed by a judge......They have thrown out, is it the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, that deals with illegal/legal search and Seizure?????
And why are the DC police involved instead of the U.S. Marshalls, DOJ, or FBI ??????????????? It is a Federal Operation, not a local LEO issue......
ancianita
(42,763 posts)The DC police were called when the FBI showed up with DOGE this time. Both forced the Institute for Peace people out. The IOP isn't even a federal agency or in a federal building. It's a foundation that owns its own building.
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)they normally would be required to have a Warrant signed by a judge....
Trump and his CABAL are moving at WARP speed, after all, they have been organizing and planning this for at least the four years of Biden...............
WASF
SSJVegeta
(2,240 posts)I wonder if on some level this could be doges undoing, giving this is completely an independent entity.
SunSeeker
(57,441 posts)But when the DC police showed up, instead of protecting the Institute staff from the trespassing DOGE group and FBI agents, the DC Police turned around and kicked out the Institute's staff from their own building and let DOGE in to do whatever they wanted in secrecy, without Institute staff even being able to observe.
The above is what Rachel Maddow reported on her show tonight.
electric_blue68
(25,619 posts)Bayard
(28,361 posts)This story was so upsetting.
jalan48
(14,914 posts)SSJVegeta
(2,240 posts)Or other non-profits.
Or local police stations.
slightlv
(7,396 posts)if you're not a white, male, registered republican maggat. Is this when we get to start shooting OUR guns at them?! I know they're just itching to get this hot war started.
SSJVegeta
(2,240 posts)Or something
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)The Trumphumpers have a lot of serious militias organized in every State, across the entire U.S. and have been ordered by Trump to "Stand Back, and Stand By.........Many with Military Backgrounds and/or Military Experience.....
I mean. It's bad. Like almost second civil war bad.
DENVERPOPS
(13,003 posts)if Biden had won, there certainly would have been a Civil War break out........
SleeplessinSoCal
(10,366 posts)....We don't ever have healthy debates. That is super unhealthy.
Demand Truth!
LaRaven
(222 posts)And who told the FBI and DC Police to allow force to let the muskrats in?! We need to get to transparency. Under normal circumstances these assh*les would be arrested! Im so scared and angry about the direction of our country.
HereForTheParty
(915 posts)Sorry this one is confusing for me.
Blue Owl
(58,121 posts)THROW THEIR FUCKING ASSES IN JAIL ALREADY.
Jesus FUCKING Christ Ive had enough of this FUCKING illegal alien.
Efilroft Sul
(4,291 posts)BREAKING (as of 2:29 p.m. 3/19): DOGE Strong-Armed USIP Security Contractors to Switch Sides
From the article:
Yesterday I noted that when DOGE showed up on Monday at the USIP offices, they came with what appeared to be private security in addition to FBI agents. It turns out that those private security people were USIPs own security contractors, only theyd switched sides to DOGE. That contractor is called Inter-Con. Realizing that DOGE might try to suborn Inter-Con, the USIPs head of security had already canceled Inter-Cons contract and that cancelation had been acknowledged. USIP was able to close out Inter-Cons swipe badges, but there was one physical key they had not been able to get possession of yet. That key was in the hands of Kevin Simpson, the Inter-Con account manager for USIP. It was that physical key, which Simpson brought to the offices on Monday, which allowed DOGE to get into the building. Once they made entry they immediately made for the gun safe and took possession of the premises. DC Metro Police were also soon on the scene and ordered the incumbent staff to leave.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/breaking-doge-strong-armed-usip-security-contractors-to-switch-sides