Erica Carr says go ahead.
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USAID staffers received an email from USAID acting executive secretary Erica Carr directing them to clear out classified safes and personnel documents, beginning Tuesday
That’s what happens when you don’t know history or civics we have the most uneducated electorate 😒 and then we have bigots the two combined are deadly combination 😒 they hate so much they will give the country away.
Might be worth a look into who the document “destruction” contractor is for this operation. Large scale document destruction is often outsourced to specialty contractors who in normal times probably have their processes and equipment audited…
Even if Biden did another 4 years and lived throughout the whole term, and even if Trump passed in that time, another Republican grifter would've taken trumps place, and Project 2025 would've just been renamed to project 2029. This country needs a leftist party.
@kenwhite.bsky.social @gtconway.bsky.social @elienyc.bsky.social @marcelias.bsky.social @noahbookbinder.bsky.social When was the last time a federal Judge dropped a big spoliation hammer on the government in litigation? This seems...almost designed for such a ruling.
First class, strike that, third class bullshit. The NYT (and the Guardian) have been punked. Just re-read the last sentence. Whenever I'm out of sharpies I alway go to the acting director to get more.
I don't know what the takeaway should be from this. They shut down some RRB buildings and are shredding/burning documents from that (?)
At least this email doesn't say that they are getting rid of crucial USAID documents. I'd assume these are employment, PII, retirement, disability, etc.
So are they starting the burning today, March 11, or tomorrow, March 12? This administration needs a copy editor. (I will not be volunteering my services.)
Kel McClanahan,
said besides issuing complaints to NARA, the public is limited prevent destroying documents.
“This is indicative of the problem with all the records laws,” McClanahan said. “All the record laws were written with the presumption that officials would not be craven. But they are.”
Hey, Erica is busy dealing with serious thoroughbred equine emergencies. You can't expect her to multi-task and also keep track of piddling legal statutes.
No, but they weren't asked to write "SECRET" in big letters on random documents they've been asked to shred, they were asked to write "SECRET" on the burn bags they're putting their classified and personnel documents into when their shredders break down or need a break.
Yes they're causing institutional damage, but the whole point of this is to have an extremely dumb visual representation of all the "work" these purges are doing, and how "corrupt" the processes are that brought them there.
Hi from Germany...
It reminds me of what the Stasi (communist-era East-German secret police) did in late 1989 at the end of their watch.
But the analogy ends here.
Now the bad guys aren't hiding their own tracks. They're forcing good guys to annihilate a good agency.
Hence the weird requirements.
Hey Germany, your country is currently “the bad guys”—supporting an ongoing genocide with Nazi-in-all-but-name police beating women in public for protesting for Palestine liberation. Save your tired story that the Stasi were “the bad guys”. They fought the Nazis who stayed in power in W Germany.
None that you are aware of as of today...
Four months ago, I might have expected the US not to defend us from the Russians anymore... but not to actively encourage them while plotting to make Canada their own personal Ukraine.
"Never say Never!" has gotten a much deeper meaning since then.
That’s my question. Everything is on servers now, what would they need to shred or burn, and why wasn’t wiping the servers included in the directive?
The whole thing seems strange.
Truthfully, as someone who has worked in government, as well as in large businesses, most of the reporting of this sounds like they're discussing the routine destruction of documents that is standard. When older than a certain age, it gets trashed. Admittedly, in part to stave off scandal...
So the democrats are on their way to the building with phones recording and documenting what is/is not happening, right? Someone's going down to get an injunction or however you'd stop this?
I called my R congressman. I'm sure he'll get right on it:
This morning, an email from Erica Y Carr, the acting executive secretary at USAID, went out to USAID essential personnel instructing them to clear out classified safes, shred the documents within, and/or use burn bags to destroy them.
This is blatantly anti-constitutional, and a clear violation of the Federal Records Act, and requires immediate intervention to prevent the illegal and unauthorized destruction of documents.
Thank you for writing this out. I used it for calling my R congresswoman and R senators who I’m sure will also jump right on it. But at the very least they’ll know we see what’s happening I guess.
seriously, i thought it would be the biggest political scandal of my lifetime. sadly, we do not have a woodward and bernstein for this- NOR will the WP be the paper to cover it.
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USAID staffers received an email from USAID acting executive secretary Erica Carr directing them to clear out classified safes and personnel documents, beginning Tuesday
per CBS News
!!!!
https://bsky.app/profile/cottonmanifesto.bsky.social/post/3lk4kao4e2c2n
They really are operating under the principle that if they just do crimes out in the open, people will assume it’s not a crime.
And no one is disabusing them of this notion.
https://www.bundesarchiv.de/en/stasi-records-archive/the-reconstruction-of-torn-documents/
What the fuqq is going on?
https://bsky.app/profile/eoinhiggins.bsky.social/post/3lk46k7yho22q
Great
Puke on desk.
Leave for the day.
At least this email doesn't say that they are getting rid of crucial USAID documents. I'd assume these are employment, PII, retirement, disability, etc.
Seriously with DEIA targeted and the A being accessibility
Just add some alt text
So we can have bags of SECRET documents sealed only with staples and unlabeled if they couldn't find a sharpie.
said besides issuing complaints to NARA, the public is limited prevent destroying documents.
“This is indicative of the problem with all the records laws,” McClanahan said. “All the record laws were written with the presumption that officials would not be craven. But they are.”
Fuck maga
https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/cmte_testimony/2024/fin/18r4DPIyIz0DBufTWfH6e422j9jAHhRB9.pdf
What is she thinking???
Either in the trial that takes down this entire scheme or in the history books showing how the American empire fell.
State your assertion.
Calm down.
It reminds me of what the Stasi (communist-era East-German secret police) did in late 1989 at the end of their watch.
But the analogy ends here.
Now the bad guys aren't hiding their own tracks. They're forcing good guys to annihilate a good agency.
Hence the weird requirements.
Four months ago, I might have expected the US not to defend us from the Russians anymore... but not to actively encourage them while plotting to make Canada their own personal Ukraine.
"Never say Never!" has gotten a much deeper meaning since then.
The whole thing seems strange.
https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/cmte_testimony/2024/hgo/1B8bCahCSgFt6ECI1uKLhg6UgZwyz5sHm.pdf
But the rush and the timing seems questionable.
Anyway, guess a lot of historians would have an opinion or two about this.
The possibilities are endless.
https://musingsofanobodyweb.wordpress.com/2025/03/11/a-global-health-massacre-and-its-all-on-us/
Who watches the Watchmen?
This morning, an email from Erica Y Carr, the acting executive secretary at USAID, went out to USAID essential personnel instructing them to clear out classified safes, shred the documents within, and/or use burn bags to destroy them.
There isn’t a law they won’t break.They are gleefully breaking laws. That is their primary directive.