Ummm………There Is a Question That Everyone Misses Here

In the latest DOGE insanity,  the Trump administration is planning to release a spreadsheet listing recipients of foreign aid has been accidentally released, and some of the recipients are likely to be targeted for this, putting them in very real danger.

First, yes, this is a major breach, and the Apartheid Era Emerald Heir Pedo Guy™ and his merry band of young boys are completely incompetent.

That being said, we are not talking about funding from the CIA, or the DoD, etc.

These are basic foreign aid programs, and unless this is just a front for regime change activities by the United States state security apparatus, these folks should not be at risk.

This is, of course a rhetorical question.  Many of these activities are ust a front for regime change activities by the United States state security apparatus.

It's something that we blithely accept, and have blithely accepted since some point in the 1950s. 

Reports that Donald Trump’s top national security officials accidentally shared their Yemen attack plans with The Atlantic in real-time drove the news in official Washington in recent days. But it wasn’t the only damaging leak of information held by the administration this week.

Two Trump administration spreadsheets — which each include what numerous advocates and government officials say is highly sensitive information on programs funded by the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) — were sent to Congress and also leaked online.

The leak, which sent a variety of international groups and nonprofits scrambling to assess the damage and protect workers operating under repressive regimes, came after the organizations had pressed the Trump administration to keep the sensitive information private and received some assurances it would remain secret.

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The State Department, led by Marco Rubio, informed a variety of international nonprofits and longtime implementing partner organizations last week that upcoming payments of their congressionally approved grant funds came with some conditions that the Trump administration wanted to clarify.

As part of their campaign to eliminate what they’re calling “waste, fraud, and abuse,” Team Trump and DOGE had demanded comprehensive grant recipient information — and State Department officials let the organizations know that Musk’s lieutenants were likely planning on turning this information into a public spreadsheet or database.

Needless to say, this is profoundly f%$#ed up, both from an operational perspective, but also from the window that it gives into the ordinary operation of the surveillance state/non-governmental organizational complex.

Both sides know what they are being paid for, and for the rest of us, it's just more of the merry band of regime change mousketeers creating worse problems in the future.  (See Iran, Afghanistan, much of Latin America, Vietnam, Congo, etc.)