@rickoooooo @GossiTheDog @sadarex Thanks, this is a great resource: I think the main point here is that it was the Secretary of Defense, and two USIP board members who "fired" Moose (see the linked letter on X). Whether they had the authority to do that is disputed, but nobody even claims DOGE has any authority in this case, they just showed up like flies around a carcass.
Amazingly, DOGE seems to be a meme: their power is that people assume they have power (note that the top article doesn't even mention DOGE).