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[dirtywick]

Newly released FBI emails show agent pushed probe of Musk over government emails

Newly released emails show an FBI agent sought to open a criminal investigation last year into Elon Musk over a government email initiative while Musk served as a special government employee leading efficiency efforts in the Trump administration, according to records released by Senate Judiciary...

flvoicenews.com

fbi agent pushed to investigate musk over communications related to doge

In a February 2025 email, then-FBI agent Kevin Gounaud proposed a criminal probe of Musk. Gounaud argued that Musk’s request that federal employees share weekly accomplishments by email “encouraged, abetted, aided, etc. thousands if not tens of thousands of government employees to violate government wide security policy and transmit sensitive government information.”

“And no, I’m not kidding,” Gounaud wrote.

Grassley said the emails fit a broader “wash, rinse and repeat” approach by federal law enforcement toward Trump and those around him.

“For almost a decade now, I’ve made records public showing how a number of now discredited law enforcement and intelligence officials schemed to take out Trump and other Republicans,” Grassley said in his opening statement. “And here we are, in 2026, still finding records from years ago showing even more evidence of targeting.”

of course grassley is presenting this as if fbi agents trying to investigate people close to the president as some kind of conspiracy to take them down and the fbi is still full of deep state agents working against the regime

 

[Trausti]

In a February 2025 email, then-FBI agent Kevin Gounaud proposed a criminal probe of Musk. Gounaud argued that Musk’s request that federal employees share weekly accomplishments by email “encouraged, abetted, aided, etc. thousands if not tens of thousands of government employees to violate government wide security policy and transmit sensitive government information.”

My goodness. Imagine federal employees being asked if that actually do anything for their generous taxpayer-funded salaries. The arrogance here is off the charts.

 

[a_unique_person]

My goodness. Imagine federal employees being asked if that actually do anything for their generous taxpayer-funded salaries. The arrogance here is off the charts.

You have no idea how security works, do you.

 

[Trausti]

You have no idea how security works, do you.

You really think that's why he objected? If simply asking someone who benefits from taxpayer largess "what would you say, you do here" causes offense, that person should be fired. They're supposed to be public servants, not public masters.

 

[Darat]

You really think that's why he objected? If simply asking someone who benefits from taxpayer largess "what would you say, you do here" causes offense, that person should be fired. They're supposed to be public servants, not public masters.

Did you not even read the quoted section in the post?

 

[dirtywick]

Universal Is Getting Cold Feet on Releasing the Elon Musk Documentary (Exclusive)

The Comcast-owned studio is not yet committing to rolling out Alex Gibney's movie that it paid millions to acquire for non-North American release before the political winds shifted.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

universal seems spooked about releasing musk documentary, may return the rights

The movie is set to premiere in U.S. theaters via the independent Bleecker Street as well as play the London Film Festival next month; both are media-rich affairs that a studio usually times with a release in the U.K. and even across the European continent. But Universal has made no such plans. Gibney did not immediately respond to a request seeking comment.

If Universal opts against releasing the movie, it would mark an extraordinary reversal at a moment when media companies are already under scrutiny for bowing to various forms of political pressure. Amazon backed out of releasing Artificial as it got into business with Sam Altman’s OpenAI, while ABC News and Paramount/CBS News each paid millions to settle lawsuits with the Trump administration many legal experts felt would be quickly dismissed.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

cowards.
it's not like Musk could do anything legal against a giant like Universal.
More likely, the C-Suite doesn't want the awkward moments when they meet Elon at the Eyes Wide Shut Parties.

 

[dirtywick]

Did you not even read the quoted section in the post?

to be fair it’s a little surprising. doge was otherwise so well run and successful

 

[plague311]

My goodness. Imagine federal employees being asked if that actually do anything for their generous taxpayer-funded salaries. The arrogance here is off the charts.

Whatever arrogance there is here it fails in comparison to the asinine idea that, even most, government employees receive "generous taxpayer-funded salaries". The amount of government employees that leave for the private sector is ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ crazy, and they aren't leaving for less money. Your implication that we government employees are getting rich is ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ stupid on its face. Prove to me that government employees are compensated at a higher rate than their private sector counterparts. You won't, cause you can't. This is just another thing, in a long list of things, that you're perpetually, loudly wrong about because you refuse to educate yourself.

You really think that's why he objected?

Ah, yes, here we have "Trausti, the mind reader!" to tell us what is "actually" going on, amiright?

If simply asking someone who benefits from taxpayer largess

Another ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ stupid statement. Employees of the government don't "benefit from the taxpayer". We wake up, we go to work, we do a job that is needed (usually for less pay than the private sector) and go home. That's not a "benefit" anymore than any other job. It's literally trading skills for pay.

"what would you say, you do here" causes offense, that person should be fired.

As others have said, you obviously have no ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ clue how security works. This is weapons grade stupid.

They're supposed to be public servants, not public masters.

What does this even mean? I get that you're trying to make some point, but this sentence doesn't even make sense.

Why don't you take a backseat on this one, champ? I'm not sure that you have the skillset for this conversation.

 

[novaphile]

I have a personal theory, after a working lifetime in both public and private sectors...

People who wail on and on about the public servants who get paid for nothing, have never had a skill set sufficient to gain employment in the public service.

Having spent their entire lives, unable to make the grade, they complain that their betters are clearly stealing their salaries.

There is a small subset of the whining cohort who briefly got in, but were sacked for malfeasance or incompetence, and they're particularly bitter.

It's similar to the put-down: "good enough for government work".

The expression was created by individuals and organisations, that were not good enough to do government work.

Hence the hate.