One key black Democrat sitting in Congress was quick to excoriate a group of extreme-left, overly-paid, mostly white technologists out of the Biden administration for their wholesale jeopardizing the nation’s cybersecurity and possibly enabling large-scale fraud within the government as they try to justify their crimes and misconduct by crying out to label it racial “equity.”
Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), the ranking member of a House Oversight Committee subpanel, called out this past Wednesday the equity-justified lies as being a “very, very serious issue.”
The extreme criticism of the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Technology Transformation Service (TTS) spawned in the wake of an inspector general report that discovered that the group was given the job of creating Login.gov entirely declined to implement facial recognition despite its presence being mandatory for a number of high-security accounts. Officials decided that facial recognition was just entirely too racist and then lied to agencies that the service was fully compliant despite their failings. This misrepresentation ended up putting well over a million accounts at risk of being compromised.
It also spawned directly after it was brought to light that TTS had ended up losing millions of dollars, repeatedly falsified documents, and put the security of highly sensitive data on the line due to their complete noncompliance with the established rules for basic security, while being instead far too deep in extreme-left politics. Employees of the team included one self-proclaimed Marxist organizer and another man that claims to identify as transgender and raised funds from his coworkers to “void their gender warranty,” and the group spent its time on other projects such as building social justice robots, instead of working.
“This is a very damning report against GSA, the one agency we trust to do the sort of oversight of other agencies and the government’s money. It’s very disconcerting. The GSA clearly has tarnished its own name here, and the question is how do they get out of that hole,” exclaimed Mfume.
“Login.gov has never met” the basic security standard that it has claimed via government documents for years that it has followed. “It did not then and for many of us it still does not. Yet it continued to mislead until January of last year when the agency released its equity action plan” that it used to retroactively justify its actions,” finished Mfume.
The commissioner of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service tasked with overseeing TTS, Sonny Hasmi, went before the panel to acknowledge that “certain members of the Login.gov team did indeed misrepresent intentionally.”
“These misrepresentations represent the worst in how government should operate,” he stated.
