I'm Ayesha Roscoe, and this is a Sunday Story from Up First.
And today, we've got a big one.
Recently,
NPR reporter Jenna McLaughlin broke open a huge story about a whistleblower from inside the federal government.
His name is Daniel Barulis, and for him, it all started on a Friday at the end of February.
I remember the moment vividly.
I was at home, and I got a call from my boss saying, hey.
My boss wants us to come in next week.
It's possible Doge will show up.
On Monday,
he sees a black SUV with a police escort pull into the parking garage at their office in D.C.
Daniel didn't speak to anyone in the SUV,
but he assumes it was members of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOJ.
He'd been hearing about DOJ showing up with police escorts around town,
and based on that call with his boss, he was expecting them to arrive that day.
They didn't want to interface with us, the admins.
They wanted...
System access to the cloud.
That's what they were there for.
And access to the cloud they got.