US Institute of Peace says DOGE has broken into its building

[highplainsdem]

Source: Politico

WASHINGTON (AP) — Employees of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have entered the U.S. Institute of Peace despite protests from the nonprofit that it is not part of the executive branch and is instead an independent agency.

The organization’s CEO, George Moose, said, “DOGE has broken into our building.” Police cars were outside the Washington building Monday evening.

The DOGE workers gained access to the building after several unsuccessful attempts Monday and after having been turned away on Friday, a senior U.S. Institute of Peace official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.

It was not immediately clear what the DOGE staffers were doing or looking for in the nonprofit’s building, which is across the street from the State Department in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood.

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Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/17/us-institute-of-peace-says-doge-has-broken-into-its-building-00234639

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The USIP is a non-profit that does work exposing threats posed by China to neighboring countries like Taiwan and many others. The Chinese Communist Party is a major business partner of Elon Musk. They have information the CCP would like to have. This is not good.

[paleotn]

1. Some of those mfr's are going to get shot.

And I won't she one damn tear.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Musk's kid hackers are stealing info for China.

Treason.

[hlthe2b]

3. why haven't their lawyers gone to court for a TRO?

Somehow I doubt anyone in the Institute for Peace are going to fire back on these cretins... and the DC police are undoubtedly cowed by the jurisdictional issues. They should have gone to court after last week's attempts.

[electric_blue68]

4. Ohhh, wish they could have *tossed them out*!!! 😬

[sakabatou]

5. All members of DOGE should be prosecuted for criminal trespassing

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Can they charge them by state law for breaking and entering?

[Wicked Blue]

7. Washington DC is a city

It would depend on the city laws, city prosecutors and city police.

[IronLionZion]

8. This administration is not interested in peace

They think peace is "fraud, waste, and abuse"

[LymphocyteLover]

9. This is criminal. FFS, these people need to be prosecuted... if only the DOJ wasn't run by the

Trump mob

[orangecrush]

10. GOOD GOOD GOOD

Arrest and charge the bastards!!!!

[SSJVegeta]

13. Police let them

[orangecrush]

44. Well fuck

That sucks.

[radical noodle]

11. Rachel has done a story about this on her show tonight

which will be repeated at midnight.

[SSJVegeta]

12. The police let them?!

[electric_blue68]

16. NOT Entirely sure.... bc verybusy day, and feeling sleepy....I THOT I heard her say ...

The DC Police arrived, and threw out the IOP employees.
But don't Quote me. I woke straight up hearing that- going.. WHAT?!!!

[SunSeeker]

17. Rachel Maddow said on her show that DC Police let them AND kicked out Institute staff!!

Someone needs to sue DC Police!

[DENVERPOPS]

21. Maybe the

Trumphumpers on the DC Police got to the other DC cops.........
At the insurection/sedition we saw many officers allow them to advance, some even moving barricades and standing aside....

We have no idea how far they have infiltrated the DC Cops, the Capitol Police Cops, the Secret Service, the National Guard, the Secret Service, and the U.S. Military...........

[electric_blue68]

24. Ohhh yeah, I think I remember some vid of DC LOE opening a door for some insurectionists

[DENVERPOPS]

38. Have you ever noticed

how the best time to get the facts is by watching it as it happens, before the video disappears, never to be seen again???????

There was some fascinating live Video of the Chinese boarding up a four story biological research lab when the Covid news was first occurring....It was in the same area of the meat market selling bats. The story said the 100 people working in the building had been rounded up and "taken away"?????...........That was never shown again, that I saw.....

[electric_blue68]

39. Ohhhh, boy. Woah! And does it feel surreal as in ....

I saw it. Now it's gone..... I know I saw it.

Gah!

[DENVERPOPS]

40. Fauci and his crowd of

Scientists World Wide, were working on getting other Nations, (even enemy nations), money and guidelines on how to make their labs safe.....for the sake of humanity. That particular lab was one they were trying to get up to acceptable standards.....And then Trump released a tsunami of pure bullshit to discredit Fauci and all of the scientist's funding and their projects world wide......Along with the NCDC and World Health Organization......

[electric_blue68]

43. For what drumphf did he has blood on his hands for all his misinformation, trying to lessen PPE to Blue States etc for..

a quarter of a million or more deaths.

[DENVERPOPS]

46. Actually

more than 500,000+ additional deaths with DeSantis, Abbott, and other Red States Governors burying the true numbers and/or not even counting.........

[electric_blue68]

47. I wouldn't be surprised.

😞

[electric_blue68]

22. Yikes, TY (sorta) for confirmation 😞 🤬

I wasn't asleep obviously but my energy was closer to this : ..........., then suddenly it was: WHAT! 😮

[ancianita]

18. Yes, they let them, and Rachel said it -- people with guns let DOGERS break and enter a building that's not even a

federal building, and forced the IOP people out.

[SSJVegeta]

23. Whats next? Library of Congress? GAO?

Perhaps some good citizens should set up some more robust private security.

[ancianita]

27. Very good questions, and exactly the ones she's raising.

Democracy Forward is representing a number of cases for entities getting the DOGE treatment, so we'll have to be as patient as the plaintiffs about this stuff.

[SSJVegeta]

28. I wonder if states can offer their national guards to protect the agencies

Since these are literally federal agencies being taken over by a hostile force.

[ancianita]

32. They not federal agencies. Not federal. One is an independent agency, the other is a foundation in its own building.

[SSJVegeta]

34. Ah right. I think i was thinking protect all of the federal agencies...

My brain is kinda... losing it 😆

[ancianita]

35. I hear ya; you're not alone; everyone's worn out. Thing is, this is even worse BECAUSE these are not federal.

[SSJVegeta]

48. I just dontbhave the brain power to comprehend and process just how bad everything is all at once...

[ancianita]

52. Understood. Right now, no one can know everything about this. The main thing is to keep informed but stay calm.

One way to withstand it all is to take the information one day at a time, slot it away as either dated digital notes, or whatever helps; there are timelines developing of what's been going on during this first 100 days, anyway. Others will handle the record of this time. We just need to keep an eye on the future in the interests of children, the poor, and just try to alleviate suffering if/when we can.

[DENVERPOPS]

26. Somewhere

there is supposed to be a warrant, signed by a judge......They have thrown out, is it the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, that deals with illegal/legal search and Seizure?????

And why are the DC police involved instead of the U.S. Marshalls, DOJ, or FBI ??????????????? It is a Federal Operation, not a local LEO issue......

[ancianita]

29. That's the way things used to work. But this is the non-state site of Axis of Evil people.

The DC police were called when the FBI showed up with DOGE this time. Both forced the Institute for Peace people out. The IOP isn't even a federal agency or in a federal building. It's a foundation that owns its own building.

[DENVERPOPS]

36. Either way

they normally would be required to have a Warrant signed by a judge....

Trump and his CABAL are moving at WARP speed, after all, they have been organizing and planning this for at least the four years of Biden...............

WASF

[SSJVegeta]

30. Super illegal

I wonder if on some level this could be doges undoing, giving this is completely an independent entity.

[SunSeeker]

41. The DOGE guys showed up with gun-toting FBI agents. The Institute called DC police.

But when the DC police showed up, instead of protecting the Institute staff from the trespassing DOGE group and FBI agents, the DC Police turned around and kicked out the Institute's staff from their own building and let DOGE in to do whatever they wanted in secrecy, without Institute staff even being able to observe.

The above is what Rachel Maddow reported on her show tonight.

[electric_blue68]

45. TY. Horrible!

[Bayard]

49. And then changed the locks

This story was so upsetting.

[jalan48]

14. I'm sure this behavior won't evolve into breaking into individual homes.

[SSJVegeta]

15. Or individual businesses

Or other non-profits.

Or local police stations.

[slightlv]

19. That sure seems to be coming down

if you're not a white, male, registered republican maggat. Is this when we get to start shooting OUR guns at them?! I know they're just itching to get this hot war started.

[SSJVegeta]

25. Thinking it might be time to organize some militias to protect the rest of our agencies.

Or something

[DENVERPOPS]

31. Regretfully

The Trumphumpers have a lot of serious militias organized in every State, across the entire U.S. and have been ordered by Trump to "Stand Back, and Stand By.........Many with Military Backgrounds and/or Military Experience.....

[SSJVegeta]

33. ...

I mean. It's bad. Like almost second civil war bad.

[DENVERPOPS]

37. I suspect that the day after the election

if Biden had won, there certainly would have been a Civil War break out........

[SleeplessinSoCal]

20. A major downside to bluesky and our media...

....We don't ever have healthy debates. That is super unhealthy.

Demand Truth!

[LaRaven]

42. Who is authorizing this sh*t?!

And who told the FBI and DC Police to allow force to let the muskrats in?! We need to get to transparency. Under normal circumstances these assh*les would be arrested! I’m so scared and angry about the direction of our country.

[HereForTheParty]

50. So is it a government agency or not?

Sorry this one is confusing for me.

[Blue Owl]

51. How about this....

THROW THEIR FUCKING ASSES IN JAIL ALREADY.

Jesus FUCKING Christ I’ve had enough of this FUCKING illegal alien.

[Efilroft Sul]

53. Wait, wait -- the story just got even crazier. Peep this from Josh Marshall of TPM.

BREAKING (as of 2:29 p.m. 3/19): DOGE Strong-Armed USIP Security Contractors to Switch Sides

From the article:

Yesterday I noted that when DOGE showed up on Monday at the USIP offices, they came with what appeared to be private security in addition to FBI agents. It turns out that those private security people were USIP’s own security contractors, only they’d switched sides to DOGE. That contractor is called “Inter-Con.” Realizing that DOGE might try to suborn Inter-Con, the USIP’s head of security had already canceled Inter-Con’s contract and that cancelation had been acknowledged. USIP was able to close out Inter-Con’s swipe badges, but there was one physical key they had not been able to get possession of yet. That key was in the hands of Kevin Simpson, the Inter-Con account manager for USIP. It was that physical key, which Simpson brought to the offices on Monday, which allowed DOGE to get into the building. Once they made entry they immediately made for the gun safe and took possession of the premises. DC Metro Police were also soon on the scene and ordered the incumbent staff to leave.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/breaking-doge-strong-armed-usip-security-contractors-to-switch-sides

[FakeNoose]

54. Every gov't agency in Washington needs to change their locks immediately