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:
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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
(20,323 posts)And I won't she one damn tear.
Irish_Dem
(69,288 posts)Treason.
hlthe2b
(109,520 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
(21,277 posts)sakabatou
(44,698 posts)Baitball Blogger
(49,960 posts)Wicked Blue
(7,934 posts)It would depend on the city laws, city prosecutors and city police.
IronLionZion
(48,729 posts)They think peace is "fraud, waste, and abuse"
LymphocyteLover
(7,924 posts)Trump mob
orangecrush
(24,487 posts)Arrest and charge the bastards!!!!
SSJVegeta
(474 posts)orangecrush
(24,487 posts)That sucks.
radical noodle
(10,106 posts)which will be repeated at midnight.
SSJVegeta
(474 posts)
electric_blue68
(21,277 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
(55,672 posts)Someone needs to sue DC Police!
DENVERPOPS
(12,049 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
(21,277 posts)DENVERPOPS
(12,049 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
(21,277 posts)I saw it. Now it's gone..... I know I saw it.
Gah!
DENVERPOPS
(12,049 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
(21,277 posts)a quarter of a million or more deaths.
DENVERPOPS
(12,049 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
(21,277 posts)😞
electric_blue68
(21,277 posts)I wasn't asleep obviously but my energy was closer to this : ..........., then suddenly it was: WHAT! 😮
ancianita
(40,426 posts)federal building, and forced the IOP people out.
SSJVegeta
(474 posts)Perhaps some good citizens should set up some more robust private security.
ancianita
(40,426 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
(474 posts)Since these are literally federal agencies being taken over by a hostile force.
ancianita
(40,426 posts)SSJVegeta
(474 posts)My brain is kinda... losing it 😆
ancianita
(40,426 posts)SSJVegeta
(474 posts)ancianita
(40,426 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
(12,049 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
(40,426 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
(12,049 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
(474 posts)
I wonder if on some level this could be doges undoing, giving this is completely an independent entity.
SunSeeker
(55,672 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
(21,277 posts)Bayard
(24,919 posts)This story was so upsetting.
jalan48
(14,862 posts)SSJVegeta
(474 posts)Or other non-profits.
Or local police stations.
slightlv
(5,456 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
(474 posts)Or something
DENVERPOPS
(12,049 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
(12,049 posts)if Biden had won, there certainly would have been a Civil War break out........
SleeplessinSoCal
(10,056 posts)....We don't ever have healthy debates. That is super unhealthy.
Demand Truth!
LaRaven
(116 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
(877 posts)Sorry this one is confusing for me.
Blue Owl
(56,168 posts)THROW THEIR FUCKING ASSES IN JAIL ALREADY.
Jesus FUCKING Christ Ive had enough of this FUCKING illegal alien.
Efilroft Sul
(3,995 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
FakeNoose
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