He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut

[AZProgressive]

On April 14, 2025, Dan Berulis, an IT staffer at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), filed a Congressional whistleblower complaint with an extraordinary and urgent claim: The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had seemingly compromised the agency’s data and appeared to be exfiltrating it out of the NLRB entirely. Additionally, Berulis claimed that mere minutes after DOGE members had accessed the agency’s data, there appeared to be login attempts from an IP address in Russia.

At the time, DOGE teams, orchestrated by billionaire Elon Musk, were sweeping across government, firing federal workers and accessing sensitive data and technical systems with no oversight and little transparency.

The following day, Berulis went public in an NPR article with his name and claims. In it, he claimed that in the lead-up to his Congressional disclosure, a threatening note had been taped to his door, including photos of him walking his dog that appeared to have been taken by a drone. Berulis was already scared that speaking out had made him a target.

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Five days after the NPR story went live, on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025, Berulis got in his car to drive to Maryland to make a last-minute visit to his uncle, opting to take local roads instead of the major highway nearby. Within about five minutes of leaving his house, Berulis realized something was wrong. As he approached a stop sign at an intersection, his car wouldn’t slow down. He ran off the road and into the sign. When he examined his car, he found something that terrified him: His brake lines had been cut.

https://www.wired.com/story/he-blew-the-whistle-on-doge-then-his-brakes-were-cut/

[UpInArms]

1. Whoever cut the brake line was very knowledgeable about the electronic sensors

Since then, Berulis has laid low. He filed a police report, included in the suit and viewed by WIRED, and had the car seen by a mechanic who, according to the report, found “that the driver-side front impact/airbag sensor had also been removed but noted that the remaining wires had been spliced together, completing the circuit in a manner that prevented the vehicle from detecting or logging the missing component, while also preventing the vehicle from activating its safety protocols, alerting the driver, or engaging limp mode.” The police report also indicates that fingerprints had been found on Berulis’ car. According to the police report, the case is now “inactive,” “due to the lack of any specific suspect information,” though the police’s intelligence unit was notified.

[calimary]

8. The case is now "inactive "?????

A case of obvious tampering that, in a worse-case scenario, could kill whoever would be driving?????

W. T. F. ???????????

I know what’s next: Trump once again claiming “I don’t know anything about it”!!!!!

Followed by NOTHING done to investigate or cut through the Trump crap.

[malaise]

16. Of course!

Rec

[Easterncedar]

2. Terrifying - and so Putinesque, no?

[SheltieLover]

3. Absolutely!

[dalton99a]

4. Kick

[Farmer-Rick]

5. So Musk is just a Putin stooge too

No sense of loyalty or patriotism in the Epstein Putin class. It's all about them and what they can con or force out of the rest of us.

[FakeNoose]

6. Did you guys see this? (from the OP)

Berulis claimed that mere minutes after DOGE members had accessed the agency’s data, there appeared to be login attempts from an IP address in Russia.

[Prairie_Seagull]

12. Were the attempts successful?

Da, da, da. I'd bet.

[chowder66]

13. Yes. It was reported on when he blew the whistle but I hadn't heard about his brake lines being cut.

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355895/doge-musk-nlrb-takeaways-security

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/federal-employee-alleges-doge-activity-resulted-data-breach-labor-boar-rcna201425

https://www.ms.now/opinion/msnbc-opinion/doge-social-security-data-whistleblower-trump-rcna228942

[surfered]

7. Attempted murder?

[yellow dahlia]

9. This is not a government, it's a criminal syndicate.

[hamsterjill]

10. Why aren't Democrats INSISTING that this be investigated?

There will be evidence available that the car was actually tampered with. There would be witnesses.

The fact that things like this happen and no one even knows about it is ridiculous. Where are the remaining, few media people?

[chowder66]

14. "...the case is now "inactive," "due to the lack of any specific suspect information,"

The police report also indicates that fingerprints had been found on Berulis’ car. According to the police report, the case is now “inactive,” “due to the lack of any specific suspect information,” though the police’s intelligence unit was notified.

[hamsterjill]

15. Again, why aren't Democrats seizing on this?

Surely they have the means to cut through a local police report.

[1WorldHope]

11. It goes fast and deep and it's all connected.

Did you read this from Botany this week?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016430288

[Blue Owl]

17. Few things would bring me more joy

than Leon Muskrat’s severed head