Given the speed with which Musk’s DOGE team was allowed access to such critical government databases, it strains credulity that Coristine could have been properly cleared beforehand. After all, he’d recently been dismissed from a job for allegedly leaking internal company information to outsiders.

This is why they aren’t even bothering with getting security clearances, because they would all fail. DOGE is an inside job, promoted publically to cause chaos instead of trying to be secretive.