By Kirsten Grind, Eric Lipton and Sheera Frenkel , December 17, 2024
Federal agencies have opened at least three reviews into whether the company and its leader complied with disclosure protocols intended to protect state secrets, people with knowledge of the matter said.
‘But Representative Doug Lamborn, a Republican from Colorado on the House Armed Services Committee, said Mr. Musk was “obviously a patriotic American and I don’t think would ever knowingly give aid or comfort to an adversary of the United States.”’
Call Rep Lamborn in D.C at Phone: (202) 225-4422
Elon Musk takes ketamine, has secret meetings with Putin. Elon Musk is a threat to American national security. Hearings need to be held. Musk must divest SpaceX and all govt. contracts.
Danielle Brian, the executive director of the Project on Government Oversight, a nonprofit that examines Pentagon contracts, said the debate over Mr. Musk’s compliance with security rules was the first clear conflict of interest that had emerged over his roles as a defense contractor and Trump adviser.
“He is creating a very threatening environment for government institutions that we rely on to reveal wrongdoing when it happens,” she said. “It is going to break our system of accountability and checks and balances.”
Some SpaceX workers said they feared speaking up since the company had fired employees who raised concerns to the National Labor Relations Board about Mr. Musk. But on Nov. 2, Cody Miller, an Army veteran who worked on security clearances at SpaceX, emailed senior executives and accused them of picking and choosing which government rules to follow, according to a copy of the message viewed by The Times.
SpaceX has a “let’s push it till we are caught mentality,” Mr. Miller wrote, adding that top executives followed the rules only “when convenient for senior leaders.”
That same day, SpaceX’s human resources department called Mr. Miller and pushed him to leave, three people with knowledge of the company said. Mr. Miller agreed to resign.
