Former USIP Lawyer on DOGE: ‘Brass Knuckles on an Authoritarian Fist’

December 4, 2025 Angela Watercutter

George Foote, who served as the outside general counsel to the US Institute of Peace, said at WIRED’s Big Interview event that DOGE operatives arrived like a “strike team.”

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