LELAND DUDEK, the guy who threatened to close down Social Security because a court has ordered the Social Security Administration to not let Musk's incel-boy army root around and copy and, I have no doubt, steal personal and other information on literally just about every American has a particular relevance for Maine. It's no surprise as before Donny named him acting director, he was already in trouble for violating non-disclosure laws and policies at SSA.
Acting Social Security Administration Commissioner Michelle King resigned over the holiday weekend after she reportedly refused to aid Elon Musk’s pseudo-agency, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), with accessing sensitive beneficiary data. King left a vacancy that was immediately filled by Leland Dudek, a guy who most people at the agency had never heard of before. By Wednesday night, Musk was publicly praising him as a hero. What happened?
In a now-deleted LinkedIn post on Friday from Dudek that was shared with me earlier this week, he proudly admits to violating multiple agency protocols and ethical standards in service of Musk’s SSA team—which I’ve confirmed includes Ethan Shaotran, Nikhil Rajpal, Gautier Cole-Killian and Marko Elez (who previously resigned after his racist social media posts resurfaced but has been reinstated).
Dudek posted his confessionary tale when King was still in charge, but when his fate suddenly changed early this week, the post vanished. Here is the full text, which has been referenced elsewhere but not published in its entirety:
When diaper Donald picked a fight with Maine's governor, Janet Mills a few weeks back, Dudek closed down a program that allowed new parents to get a Social Security number for their infants without having to go to a Social Security office, there are, from what I read online, eight Social Security offices across the largest and among the most rural states east of the Mississippi and that move would have caused enormous hardship, especially for those with the least ability to travel and take time off. When confronted over that Dudek backed down and said he did it because he was pissed off that Governor Mills dissed his diaper wearing man-god.
Anyway, Dudek is a product of one of those big name Catholic schools, Catholic University* and the National Defense University. You have to wonder if there is any discussion in Catholic education circles as to the immorality and amorality of so many of those who they credential, considering one of the foremost claims of the Catholic educational establishment is in the moral formation of its students. They don't seem to do a very good job of it, for institutions that get so much of their cred and, perhaps donations, from those claims. I'd trust land grant universities probably do at least as well and, considering the family wealth of their typical product, probably more reliably turn out decent People.
* Catholic University is one of only a few pontifical universities in the United States, so it's not your average rinky-dink Catholic college. It has the dubious distinction of having the Republican-fascist, Trumpzi Caridinals (Carol Channing-Liberace impersonator) Raymond Burke and Timothy Dolan and the former RNC headEd Gilespie as well as some less sleazy grad who might be counted as somewhat to its credit.
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