Washington Post [no paywall]: “It’s been nearly a year since Elon Musk left the federal government, and while there have been a few recent revelations, there is still plenty about how the U.S. DOGE Service operated and what its members did in government that remains shrouded in mystery. For months, the Government Accountability Office has been conducting a major investigation into how DOGE members handled sensitive information, but as new internal government emails reveal, final findings could leave plenty of key information out of public view. Since last spring, the GAO has been looking into how DOGE members accessed sensitive government databases. But the probes have been stymied by federal agencies trying to avoid handing over information. A GAO attorney emailed officials at the Department of Health and Human Services last month because, while the department provided much of the documentation that was requested, there were outstanding requests for information that were key to the investigation, including screenshots and a routine walk-through meeting to corroborate details about DOGE’s access to data. The GAO attorney told the HHS officials that the congressional research arm could discuss how it would protect confidential information as it has with other agencies in the past. “We believe that any of the options presented to HHS should alleviate your concerns over potential discrepancies between what is produced in litigation and provided to GAO,” the GAO attorney wrote to HHS officials. An HHS attorney responded nearly two hours later that their “position has not changed and we would like to work to close out the engagement.”…