Comment by llm_nerd

The idea that they need to operate -- on hugely sensitive data and systems -- in darkness because any sort of accountability amounts to "sabotage" is dubious.

"Rules for thee, not for me"

This is some sort of "The Deep State is trying to foil them" nonsense.

And to be clear, aside from a weird brute forcing library and the fact that all of the DOGE employees seem to be spectacularly incompetent, there are rational technical reasons someone might want logging temporarily disabled for a one-off. For instance doing an activity that is justified and legitimate and secure and reasonable, but that would yield TB of logs unnecessarily, itself which might cause operational or availability issues. But having a bunch of incompetent script kiddies using their garbage scripts makes that fringe justification unlikely, and they're likely doing very criminal things.