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Mass federal worker firings could pose significant security risk for U.S., experts warn
The mass firings of federal workers present an unprecedented opportunity for U.S. adversaries to recruit informants, national security and intelligence experts say.
"This happens even in good times - someone in the intelligence community who for personal financial or other reasons walks into an embassy to sell America out - but DOGE is taking it to a whole new level," said John Schindler, a former counterintelligence official. Frank Montoya Jr., a retired senior FBI official and former top U.S. government counterintelligence executive, said he was less concerned about well-trained intelligence community employees betraying their oaths and selling out to American adversaries. A foreign spy service or scammer looking to exploit a recently laid-off federal worker could bring in potential recruits by posting a fake job ad online.
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