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highplainsdem

(55,789 posts)
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 07:41 PM Mar 17

US Institute of Peace says DOGE has broken into its building

Source: Politico

WASHINGTON (AP) — Employees of Elon Musk’s 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 organization’s 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 nonprofit’s 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



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Ron Filipkowski
‪@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.
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US Institute of Peace says DOGE has broken into its building (Original Post) highplainsdem Mar 17 OP
Some of those mfr's are going to get shot. paleotn Mar 17 #1
Musk's kid hackers are stealing info for China. Irish_Dem Mar 17 #2
why haven't their lawyers gone to court for a TRO? hlthe2b Mar 17 #3
Ohhh, wish they could have *tossed them out*!!! 😬 electric_blue68 Mar 17 #4
All members of DOGE should be prosecuted for criminal trespassing sakabatou Mar 17 #5
Can they charge them by state law for breaking and entering? Baitball Blogger Mar 17 #6
Washington DC is a city Wicked Blue Mar 17 #7
This administration is not interested in peace IronLionZion Mar 17 #8
This is criminal. FFS, these people need to be prosecuted... if only the DOJ wasn't run by the LymphocyteLover Mar 17 #9
GOOD GOOD GOOD orangecrush Mar 17 #10
Police let them SSJVegeta Mar 17 #13
Well fuck orangecrush Mar 17 #44
Rachel has done a story about this on her show tonight radical noodle Mar 17 #11
The police let them?! SSJVegeta Mar 17 #12
NOT Entirely sure.... bc verybusy day, and feeling sleepy....I THOT I heard her say ... electric_blue68 Mar 17 #16
Rachel Maddow said on her show that DC Police let them AND kicked out Institute staff!! SunSeeker Mar 17 #17
Maybe the DENVERPOPS Mar 17 #21
Ohhh yeah, I think I remember some vid of DC LOE opening a door for some insurectionists electric_blue68 Mar 17 #24
Have you ever noticed DENVERPOPS Mar 17 #38
Ohhhh, boy. Woah! And does it feel surreal as in .... electric_blue68 Mar 17 #39
Fauci and his crowd of DENVERPOPS Mar 17 #40
For what drumphf did he has blood on his hands for all his misinformation, trying to lessen PPE to Blue States etc for.. electric_blue68 Mar 17 #43
Actually DENVERPOPS Mar 17 #46
I wouldn't be surprised. electric_blue68 Mar 17 #47
Yikes, TY (sorta) for confirmation 😞 🤬 electric_blue68 Mar 17 #22
Yes, they let them, and Rachel said it -- people with guns let DOGERS break and enter a building that's not even a ancianita Mar 17 #18
Whats next? Library of Congress? GAO? SSJVegeta Mar 17 #23
Very good questions, and exactly the ones she's raising. ancianita Mar 17 #27
I wonder if states can offer their national guards to protect the agencies SSJVegeta Mar 17 #28
They not federal agencies. Not federal. One is an independent agency, the other is a foundation in its own building. ancianita Mar 17 #32
Ah right. I think i was thinking protect all of the federal agencies... SSJVegeta Mar 17 #34
I hear ya; you're not alone; everyone's worn out. Thing is, this is even worse BECAUSE these are not federal. ancianita Mar 17 #35
I just dontbhave the brain power to comprehend and process just how bad everything is all at once... SSJVegeta Mar 18 #48
Understood. Right now, no one can know everything about this. The main thing is to keep informed but stay calm. ancianita Mar 19 #52
Somewhere DENVERPOPS Mar 17 #26
That's the way things used to work. But this is the non-state site of Axis of Evil people. ancianita Mar 17 #29
Either way DENVERPOPS Mar 17 #36
Super illegal SSJVegeta Mar 17 #30
The DOGE guys showed up with gun-toting FBI agents. The Institute called DC police. SunSeeker Mar 17 #41
TY. Horrible! electric_blue68 Mar 17 #45
And then changed the locks Bayard Mar 18 #49
I'm sure this behavior won't evolve into breaking into individual homes. jalan48 Mar 17 #14
Or individual businesses SSJVegeta Mar 17 #15
That sure seems to be coming down slightlv Mar 17 #19
Thinking it might be time to organize some militias to protect the rest of our agencies. SSJVegeta Mar 17 #25
Regretfully DENVERPOPS Mar 17 #31
... SSJVegeta Mar 17 #33
I suspect that the day after the election DENVERPOPS Mar 17 #37
A major downside to bluesky and our media... SleeplessinSoCal Mar 17 #20
Who is authorizing this sh*t?! LaRaven Mar 17 #42
So is it a government agency or not? HereForTheParty Mar 18 #50
How about this.... Blue Owl Mar 18 #51
Wait, wait -- the story just got even crazier. Peep this from Josh Marshall of TPM. Efilroft Sul Mar 19 #53
Every gov't agency in Washington needs to change their locks immediately FakeNoose Mar 19 #54

hlthe2b

(109,520 posts)
3. why haven't their lawyers gone to court for a TRO?
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 08:01 PM
Mar 17

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.

LymphocyteLover

(7,924 posts)
9. This is criminal. FFS, these people need to be prosecuted... if only the DOJ wasn't run by the
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 09:42 PM
Mar 17

Trump mob

electric_blue68

(21,277 posts)
16. NOT Entirely sure.... bc verybusy day, and feeling sleepy....I THOT I heard her say ...
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 09:56 PM
Mar 17

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)
17. Rachel Maddow said on her show that DC Police let them AND kicked out Institute staff!!
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 10:07 PM
Mar 17

Someone needs to sue DC Police!

DENVERPOPS

(12,049 posts)
21. Maybe the
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 10:30 PM
Mar 17

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...........

DENVERPOPS

(12,049 posts)
38. Have you ever noticed
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 10:55 PM
Mar 17

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)
39. Ohhhh, boy. Woah! And does it feel surreal as in ....
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 11:01 PM
Mar 17

I saw it. Now it's gone..... I know I saw it.

Gah!


DENVERPOPS

(12,049 posts)
40. Fauci and his crowd of
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 11:08 PM
Mar 17

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)
43. For what drumphf did he has blood on his hands for all his misinformation, trying to lessen PPE to Blue States etc for..
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 11:16 PM
Mar 17

a quarter of a million or more deaths.

DENVERPOPS

(12,049 posts)
46. Actually
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 11:19 PM
Mar 17

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)
22. Yikes, TY (sorta) for confirmation 😞 🤬
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 10:30 PM
Mar 17

I wasn't asleep obviously but my energy was closer to this : ..........., then suddenly it was: WHAT! 😮

ancianita

(40,426 posts)
18. Yes, they let them, and Rachel said it -- people with guns let DOGERS break and enter a building that's not even a
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 10:19 PM
Mar 17

federal building, and forced the IOP people out.

SSJVegeta

(474 posts)
23. Whats next? Library of Congress? GAO?
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 10:32 PM
Mar 17

Perhaps some good citizens should set up some more robust private security.

ancianita

(40,426 posts)
27. Very good questions, and exactly the ones she's raising.
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 10:35 PM
Mar 17

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)
28. I wonder if states can offer their national guards to protect the agencies
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 10:36 PM
Mar 17

Since these are literally federal agencies being taken over by a hostile force.

ancianita

(40,426 posts)
32. They not federal agencies. Not federal. One is an independent agency, the other is a foundation in its own building.
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 10:40 PM
Mar 17

SSJVegeta

(474 posts)
34. Ah right. I think i was thinking protect all of the federal agencies...
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 10:43 PM
Mar 17

My brain is kinda... losing it 😆

ancianita

(40,426 posts)
35. I hear ya; you're not alone; everyone's worn out. Thing is, this is even worse BECAUSE these are not federal.
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 10:46 PM
Mar 17

SSJVegeta

(474 posts)
48. I just dontbhave the brain power to comprehend and process just how bad everything is all at once...
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 12:10 AM
Mar 18

ancianita

(40,426 posts)
52. Understood. Right now, no one can know everything about this. The main thing is to keep informed but stay calm.
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 01:21 PM
Mar 19

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)
26. Somewhere
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 10:34 PM
Mar 17

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)
29. That's the way things used to work. But this is the non-state site of Axis of Evil people.
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 10:38 PM
Mar 17

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)
36. Either way
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 10:47 PM
Mar 17

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)
30. Super illegal
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 10:39 PM
Mar 17


I wonder if on some level this could be doges undoing, giving this is completely an independent entity.

SunSeeker

(55,672 posts)
41. The DOGE guys showed up with gun-toting FBI agents. The Institute called DC police.
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 11:11 PM
Mar 17

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.

slightlv

(5,456 posts)
19. That sure seems to be coming down
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 10:23 PM
Mar 17

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)
25. Thinking it might be time to organize some militias to protect the rest of our agencies.
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 10:33 PM
Mar 17

Or something

DENVERPOPS

(12,049 posts)
31. Regretfully
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 10:39 PM
Mar 17

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.....

DENVERPOPS

(12,049 posts)
37. I suspect that the day after the election
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 10:49 PM
Mar 17

if Biden had won, there certainly would have been a Civil War break out........

SleeplessinSoCal

(10,056 posts)
20. A major downside to bluesky and our media...
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 10:28 PM
Mar 17

....We don't ever have healthy debates. That is super unhealthy.

Demand Truth!

LaRaven

(116 posts)
42. Who is authorizing this sh*t?!
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 11:12 PM
Mar 17

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! I’m so scared and angry about the direction of our country.

Blue Owl

(56,168 posts)
51. How about this....
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 06:06 PM
Mar 18

THROW THEIR FUCKING ASSES IN JAIL ALREADY.

Jesus FUCKING Christ I’ve had enough of this FUCKING illegal alien.

Efilroft Sul

(3,995 posts)
53. Wait, wait -- the story just got even crazier. Peep this from Josh Marshall of TPM.
Wed Mar 19, 2025, 04:29 PM
Mar 19

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 USIP’s own security contractors, only they’d switched sides to DOGE. That contractor is called “Inter-Con.” Realizing that DOGE might try to suborn Inter-Con, the USIP’s head of security had already canceled Inter-Con’s contract and that cancelation had been acknowledged. USIP was able to close out Inter-Con’s 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

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