But we recovered it, they don't understand technology but we do. When asked to provide proof Elon went on about how they tried to hide it and never responded to the request for proof.
USIP is the institute for Peace, Musk said they found proof they had funneled money to the Taliban, various other Afghanistan groups and "terrorist organizations". Again they provided no proof of any of this.
An online site that is keeping track of what DOGE claims says the drives DOGE said were wiped by USIP don't exist, in fact just a day earlier DOGE had bragged they had stopped USIP from buying a bunch of new equipment, on the list of equipment, the very drives Musk is saying USPI wiped. So they don't even have such drives. The site also pointed out 1TB is nothing these days, you can literally buy laptops with 1 TB drives, so the way Musk said it he was saying it as if it's this enormous amount of data. They joked unless USIP kept a specific drive to store evidence of their financial crimes the claim is just nonsense