FBI agent proposed criminal probe into Elon Musk over OPM email policy, email reveals
What did you get done last week. An FBI agent wanted that question treated like a crime.
Summary
- Just the News reports Sen. Chuck Grassley released a Tuesday email in which then-FBI agent Kevin Gounaud recommended opening a criminal 58 matter on OPM staff and Elon Musk over the 2025 DOGE weekly-accomplishments email to federal workers.
- Musk and OPM asked employees for a bullet-point summary of the week's work and told them not to include classified information, links, or attachments. Musk posted on X that failure to respond would be taken as a resignation, citing President Trump's instructions.
- Gounaud wrote that Musk, as a special government employee, encouraged thousands of workers to transmit sensitive information, wasted official time, and that using X for an official notice might generate income and violate 18 USC 208. He also floated 18 USC 873 over the resignation warning. He added, And no, I'm not kidding, and offered to find a prosecutor.
- The Daily Caller notes Grassley declassified the email during Kash Patel's Judiciary hearing and said records still show a bureaucracy that targeted Trump and Republicans. Gounaud compared Musk's X post to Hillary Clinton's private server. OPM's own email had barred classified content.
Commentary
A shop dad still writes five lines on a grease card and knows a weekly report is supposed to be a job, not a felony theory. He did not pay the levy so a badge could hunt the man who asked what the payroll actually did.
Five bullets. No classified. An agent offering to shop a prosecutor. The honest household already filled out a timesheet. The linoleum under that cubicle still waits.
Look every working father who still has to account for a shift in the eye and answer this: if asking what you got done last week can be dressed up as a criminal 58, who still owns the next efficiency order that the building does not like?
Comments
Five bullets. No classified. Criminal 58. Keep that order.
I stood a desk so a report still meant a report. A weekly list is not a server scandal.
Gounaud. Grassley. 18 USC 208. Patel hearing. Print the four.
Allied services still treat a status email as management, not a conspiracy.
SGE status. X announcement. Offer to find a prosecutor. File the three.
I still write what I did on a clipboard. I want the next ask treated like work, not a raid.
A badge hunting a timesheet is not oversight. It is a warning the street already paid.
A criminal theory on an efficiency email is a second border around a payroll.
JTN printed the email. Daily Caller printed Grassley's targeting file. Argue those nouns.
Ask the question. Keep the classified out. A weekly list is not a crime.
