{"id":1504663,"date":"2024-11-27T03:35:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T08:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1504663"},"modified":"2024-11-27T03:35:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T08:35:00","slug":"trump-transition-team-signs-modified-white-house-agreement-without-govt-technology-to-conduct-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/trump-transition-team-signs-modified-white-house-agreement-without-govt-technology-to-conduct-surveillance\/1504663\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Transition Team Signs Modified White House Agreement, Without Govt Technology To Conduct Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump Transition Team Signs Modified White House Agreement, Without Govt Technology To Conduct Surveillance<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by ‘sundance’ via The Last Refuge,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The President Trump transition team has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to start the process of transferring control of the federal government.\u00a0<\/strong> The landing teams from each of the cabinets will now begin to engage with their exiting counterparts.<\/p>\n

There were many articles written about the delays in signing the agreements.\u00a0 However, President Trump waited until he has his cabinet fully assembled before signing the first part that permits the landing teams to engage.\u00a0 The second part with government provided offices and technology is NOT being accepted.<\/p>\n

President Trump\u2019s Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, announced the Trump transition team has refused to sign an MOU with the Government Services Administration (GSA), and will not be using cell phones, computers, offices or \u201cany technology\u201d provided by the GSA.\u00a0 This is a smart move to avoid the Deep State\u00a0surveillance situation<\/a>\u00a0that was faced in the first term.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In the first Trump administration, the GSA had wiretaps, office bugs,<\/strong> and gave all the electronic communication information from the Trump transition to the FBI, IC and later Robert Mueller. In essence, the\u00a0GSA spied on the Trump team<\/a>, then gave all the data to the operatives who were in place to target them.\u00a0 The Trump team is not making this mistake again.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Trump transition team is also not going to use the office space provided by the GSA and will instead have their own offices and security systems in place to coordinate the transition to power.<\/strong><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON DC<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 [\u2026] The Trump team\u2019s unprecedented delay in signing these agreements, weeks after being declared the winner of the election, had alarmed former officials and ethics experts who warned it could lead to conflicts of interest and leave the new government unprepared to govern on Day One.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the Tuesday announcement, Wiles suggested the Trump transition will not sign a separate agreement with the General Services Administration, which would have allowed them to receive federal funding, cybersecurity support and government office space, pledging instead to fund the transition with private dollars, run it out of private facilities, and deploy their own \u201cexisting security and information protections\u201d for sensitive data.<\/em><\/p>\n

The transition, Wiles said, \u201cwill operate as a self-sufficient organization, adding that declining government funding will \u201csave taxpayers\u2019 hard-earned money.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

And while Wiles also pledged in the Tuesday statement to publicly disclose the private donors to the transition and \u201cnot accept foreign donations,\u201d there will be no legal mechanism to enforce those promises of transparency.<\/em><\/p>\n

The lack of federal cybersecurity support could also make the Trump transition a softer target for foreign hackers \u2014 who already successfully penetrated the campaign earlier this year.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s something that in 2020 was maybe the single most important worry of the [Biden] transition team \u2014 that they would be hacked, and all of this information, including intelligence information, personal information about job applicants, would be threatened,\u201d said Heath Brown, an associate professor of public policy at CUNY\u2019s John Jay College who wrote a book about Biden\u2019s transition. \u201cIt\u2019s imperative that the Trump Transition Team has installed the proper procedures to protect itself.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

White House spokesperson Saloni Sharma said the Biden administration is concerned about the ramifications of their successors forgoing GSA support, but remains \u201ccommitted to an orderly transition.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we do not agree with the Trump transition team\u2019s decision to forgo signing the GSA MOU, we will follow the purpose of the Presidential Transition Act which clearly states that \u2018any disruption occasioned by the transfer of the executive power could produce results detrimental to the safety and wellbeing of the United States and its people,\u2019\u201d she said.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the White House memo, Sharma added, the Trump transition \u201cagreed to important safeguards to protect non-public information and prevent conflicts of interest, including who has access to the information and how the information is shared,\u201d and also agreed to publicly share the ethics agreements it is imposing on its own employees. <\/em><\/p>\n

(read more<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nTue, 11\/26\/2024 – 22:35<\/span><\/p>\n

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