CLAIM: DOGE posts classified information on its website

[fizzBuzz]

Last week, the media went wild over DOGE posting "classified information" on its website. DOGE has a page showing the government's hierarchical structure and it displays the head count and total employee wages for each department. Among this hierarchy are several intelligence agencies, one being the NRO (National Reconnaissance Office), which is the dept in question. The claim is that intelligence agency head counts and budgets are classified information (tho DOGE does not show the budget for this office).
https://doge.gov/workforce?orgId=69ee18bc-9ac8-467e-84b0-106601b01b90

This is the DOGE link to the NRO listing:
https://doge.gov/workforce?orgId=cef54cef-6e43-486d-aa0a-b1a7d5841a72

ABC News even says:

Multiple intelligence community sources told ABC News that this likely represents a significant breach.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/agency-data-shared-doge-online-sparks-concern-intelligence/story?id=118858837#:~:text=The DOGE website, updated earlier,intelligence satellites, according to a

This Huffpost article states the White House released a statement addressing the concern, but then immediately follows suggesting the classified information was not removed.

Hours after this story published, a White House spokesperson said in a statement that DOGE did not share classified information ― even as NRO's classified information was still accessible on DOGE's website.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-doge-posts-classified-data_n_67ae646de4b0513a8d767112

https://www.yahoo.com/news/doge-website-posts-classified-information-215218305.html

This is the headline for DailyMail's article!!!

DOGE leaks secret information about intelligence agencies on its website - sending spies scrambling

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ion-intelligence-agencies-website-hacked.html

All of this data is public and available for download from the Office of Personnel Management's website:
https://www.opm.gov/data/datasets/

The download is a ZIP file containing multiple TXT files that represent some personnel database. If you look at the "DTagy.txt" (this is a Departments table) file in Notepad, you can search for "recon" and will find the NRO record which has a department code of "DD82". If you then open the "FACTDATA_*.txt" file (this is an employees table) and search "DD82", you will find all of the employees that work under the NRO. Which you could sum to get a head count, and each record lists the person's salary. It's clear that the entire DOGE webpage in question is just taking this data and putting it into a user-friendly format.

Sidenote:
I was able to find a statement from the NRO of them achieving a clean audit in November of last year. Near the bottom, it says they use a public accounting firm to audit their financials... Doesn't sound so classified to me, though I cannot verify this.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.nro.gov/Portals/135/Documents/news/press/2024/NRO%2520achieves%2520unprecedented%252016th%2520clean%2520financial%2520audit_FINAL.pdf%3Fver%3Dj1O9Ov0msqP0dVO32GvowQ%253D%253D&ved=2ahUKEwj4vKyJlcSLAxW3G9AFHadiNkwQFnoECGIQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1hIY0uSCYqPQMdOimul0nZ

EDIT: Added link to DOGE NRO department listing.

 

[Mick West]

Among this hierarchy are several intelligence agencies, one being the NRO (National Reconnaissance Office), which is the dept in question. The claim is that intelligence agency head counts and budgets are classified information (tho DOGE does not show the budget for this office).
https://doge.gov/workforce?orgId=69ee18bc-9ac8-467e-84b0-106601b01b90

Where's the NRO data on the web site? Can you link to it? Has it been removed?

You can't really claim this has been debunked if we can't see what data was posted.

Since the NRO is an intelligence agency, and all the other intelligence agencies were not listed, it seems reasonable that it's inclusion was a mistake - especially if it has been removed

 

[fizzBuzz]

Where's the NRO data on the web site? Can you link to it? Has it been removed?

You can't really claim this has been debunked if we can't see what data was posted.

Since the NRO is an intelligence agency, and all the other intelligence agencies were not listed, it seems reasonable that it's inclusion was a mistake - especially if it has been removed

I added the link to the OP

 

[fizzBuzz]

Where's the NRO data on the web site? Can you link to it? Has it been removed?

You can't really claim this has been debunked if we can't see what data was posted.

Since the NRO is an intelligence agency, and all the other intelligence agencies were not listed, it seems reasonable that it's inclusion was a mistake - especially if it has been removed

The point is that it's clear the NRO employee information is public. Or at least head counts and salaries are public information, which is contrary to what the articles claim.

 

[fizzBuzz]

Since the NRO is an intelligence agency, and all the other intelligence agencies were not listed, it seems reasonable that it's inclusion was a mistake - especially if it has been removed

I'm not sure what all agencies are categorized as "intelligence", but I would imagine the "Defense Intelligence Agency" would be. It is also listed on DOGE's website with no data - so maybe this data is classified or not publicly available.. ?
https://doge.gov/workforce?orgId=60caf34b-2f18-4910-9cd2-90e0312296ac

 

[fizzBuzz]

I pulled the data into Excel and these are the results:
The blue highlighted cells are the row count and summed wages. Some of the salaries had a leading apostrophe(') for some reason, so I had to trim those for it to recognize as a number.

Here is a screenshot of the DOGE NRO department listing (https://doge.gov/workforce?orgId=cef54cef-6e43-486d-aa0a-b1a7d5841a72):

 

[fizzBuzz]

I think this is pretty much debunked, @Mick West would you agree? Or should the claim now be the OPM is releasing classified data? lol