“.. the obvious: Until this crisis is resolved or it fundamentally destroys the ability for economic and social life to continue in the United States, this newsletter is now devoted to this crisis full time.”

A current IT employee of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service told me “This level of unchecked access is critically dangerous to the economy and the government”. When I replied “this is terrifying” to being informed that they have “write access” this source replied “Yeah it's not good. Read privileges on its own still would have left room for catastrophe, but read and write is apocalyptic.”

One source explicitly said that they were only reporting to me because there was no one left in the Federal Government to report security breaches to:

I do not wish to harm my agency in any way. I loved working here. We did some of the most important work in the country and barely anyone knew who we were. In normal times, I would report insider threats to the appropriate security channels inside the government- but there is no one left for me to report it to.