I'm Aisha Roscoe, and this is the 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 Baroulis. 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 Doge. He'd been hearing about Doge 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. This is Berulis's whole job to guard the sensitive data in the cloud of his agency.

He works at the National Labor Relations Board, or NLRB, which is a small, independent federal

agency that enforces the law to protect people from unfair labor practices, like when a corporation

wants to illegally punish workers for organizing a union.

After the Doge team arrived, Barula saw one red flag after another, indicating that sensitive

data at the NLRB was at risk. It scared him enough to come forward as a whistleblower. He filed a disclosure with Congress,

and he approached Jenna at NPR. Baruch's story gives us a rare look at what Doge was doing

inside this agency, and perhaps inside many others. And also, what that means for the census of data of millions of Americans.

Jenna McLaughlin has covered cybersecurity for over a decade.

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