DOGE’s USDS Purge Included the Guy Who Keeps Veterans’ Data Safe Online
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Summary
Jonathan Kamens was fired from his role as the security lead for the US Digital Service (USDS) at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in the recent agency purge by DOGE.
Kamens’ role was to oversee protective upgrades and services from third-party security vendors on VA.
com, a site that has over 20m registered users and resides highly sensitive personal data.
His knowledge, skills and experience could be detrimental to this role and thus, putting the security of US veterans at risk.
His termination also slows down the necessary security work on the site, which will eventually lead to an incident.
He was allegedly terminated due to being publicly critical of DOGE in the weeks before USDS cuts.
