“It’s generally pretty disturbing, the sort of casual way in which these people have gained access to all these systems without the normal checks that you would expect to be in place,” says Benjamin Friedman, policy director at the conservative Defense Priorities think tank in Washington.
The operations, more broadly, point to another national security threat: shifting oversight away from lawmakers on Capitol Hill who should, in the American tradition of checks and balances, have the power of the purse. It’s an “egregious White House power grab,” Mr. Friedman adds.
The White House says that Mr. Musk and his team are operating in “full compliance with federal law” and with “appropriate security clearances.”
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