Elon Musk's DOGE team gets access to classified nuclear secrets

Two members of Elon Musk's DOGE team were reportedly granted access to highly classified information about the United States government's nuclear weapon stockpile despite having zero experience with handling classified information.

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A new NPR report has revealed that 23-year-old former SpaceX intern Luke Farritor and venture capitalist Adam Ramada were granted access to the government's nuclear secrets, with both of the DOGE members having accounts on nuclear networks for at least two weeks. Notably, a spokesperson for the Department of Energy (DOE) initially denied that Farritor and Ramada had access to the network, with the DOE writing, "This reporting is false. No DOGE personnel have accessed these NNSA systems."

However, the DOE released an update on Monday where it said accounts for both of the DOGE members were created on the network, but never used. "DOE is able to confirm that these accounts in question were never activated and have never been accessed," the email statement read. The NPR article cites two sources who declined to be identified, as they are unable to speak about the matter publicly. The publication notes that its sources have access to the same network to which Farritor and Ramada were connected.

Additionally, NPR writes that DOGE employees' presence on the network would not be enough for the two individuals to have gained access to the secret data within the classified files, meaning they had accounts on the network but didn't have the permissions to see what was within the files themselves.