DOCUMENT DESTRUCTION:
My reporter Brett Murphy obtained a remarkable directive to folks at USAID: Empty the safes with the classified and personnel records and then,
"Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break."
My reporter Brett Murphy obtained a remarkable directive to folks at USAID: Empty the safes with the classified and personnel records and then,
"Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break."
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He asked Kel McClanahan, a national security attorney, if this was legal. "No it is not," he said. It breaks the Federal Records Act. "Classified records are still federal records."
Trump's crony or Biden's crony?
You didn't know if any crimes were gonna be committed
or are/were committed
or directed to be Committed by the Fake Non approved by congress Agency DOGE
Well here you Go
Whistleblowers who know of on the job crimes & need to report
https://zagfirm.com/federal-employment-lawyers/#:~:text=Contact%20Our%20Federal%20Employment%20Attorneys,(301)%20587%2D9373
Rubio? He’s the acting admin?
WHY destroy records? To prevent bad actors from getting info? Or to destroy USAID?
I’m guessing NARA has been informed & if there’s anyone LEFT at NARA, I’d expect them to intervene
We live in the worst timeline
It was Acting USAid Secretary Erica Y Carr
Rubio is Acting Archivist
So not holding my breath for NARA to protect docs
I’ve called the offices of my Senators & House Rep
More info:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/11/usaid-staff-documents
RUBIO?
WTELF
So our best hope is a group of archivists go rogue and show up at USAID to physically protect records until a judge intervenes?
We are so screwed
It’s amazing there is no one capable of filing and emergency injection about this (and someone capable of enforcing it, preferably with shotguns and handcuffs)
They cannot rule for ever.
I want to see some motherfucking consequences, dammit.
Rethuglikkkon in 50 years has?
The obvious motivation here is to destroy the records of whatever CIA/IC people and activities have been worked through USAID before doge accidentally publicizes it
https://web.archive.org/web/20250129071500/https://2017-2020.usaid.gov/who-we-are/organization/erica-carr
As for the shredding, I don't trust a single thing this admin says about their reasons.
And although I’m implacably opposed to regime change I do support this.
there are no consequences
Break law and nothing happens = no law
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-36/chapter-XII/subchapter-B/part-1229
https://bsky.app/profile/plaintanjane.bsky.social/post/3lk4k5xbvvc2e
what happens now?
Who is in a position to stop the
illegal destruction of the records?
Preserving US government records is their job
Found that out after I posted
Realized that the only help from NARA would be rogue archivists physically blocking destruction of docs
Not likely
I called the offices for my Senators & House Rep
for my senators
I'm in a blue state
How much difference will calls like mine make?
I don't know--
but calling does alleviate the gloom
that descends when more news breaks about
those brazen clowns running amok in DC
🤦♀️
Will a Judge handling a USAID lawsuit take exception to these actions?
If this is illegal, can anyone be jailed or fined into bankruptcy?
Nevermind
Trump can pardon people for breaking federal laws
That’s what being a patriot is in the USA in 2025.
Weird time to be alive.
And there were hundreds of people who were political appointees but who weren't President who could have and should have been prosecuted.
There are no good options
https://x.com/BrettMmurphy/status/1899485474088976605
Email in article. Had to Google it.
Likely so no one can fact check all the claims of "fraud"?
ARE THEY COMPLYING WITH THIS ILLEGAL ORDER????
Or leave them in boxes on a stage
Roberts put the stake in the heart of democracy when he gave Presidents immunity: the USA is cooked.
Oh yeah…and it’s also legal to give government employees gifts & gratuities now.
Thanks SCOTUS…rot in you-know-where.
This is core to democracy, to a people' ever finding their nations way.
Destruction like this is unspeakable. Depraved.
That is Trump’s entire administration.
The Administration must cease its illegal acts, and all members of Congress must honor their oath of office to protect the Constitution and our country's rule of law. ALL OF THEM.
Serious
Doesn’t shock me
@smith.senate.gov
@ossoff.bsky.social
@whitehouse.senate.gov
@kaine.senate.gov
!!!!!
Musk has zero authority over these documents.
Connecting absolute morons to each other worldwide was such a great move. Now utter dipshits have a chance to be represented at the highest levels of society!
If an agency is to be closed … shouldn’t all the documents be archived?
You can’t just destroy Government documents and Personnel records.
And brag about it on his fascist hysteria Russian-bot tweeting death machine social network.
Imagine destroying all that evidence.
WOW, SIMPLY AMAZING.
Do your homework.🙏
Don't make me tell you cause then I'll get pissed off & and tell you about the time you came to my country, destroyed our democracy, planted a dictator, to steal our resources, killed...
Get the picture?
If we ever survive this, Elon should be arrested for being a traitor. He’s a Russian asset.
@democrats-judiciary.house.gov
#WeThePeople
Corruption, Deceit and Lawlessness.
Color me shocked.
This is criminal
Are you spreading disinformation? Lies? So far there is no evidence that this happened
And who the heck ordered that?
Well, besides storming the building. 👀
DO NOT DESTROY DOCUMENTS. Refuse the order.
Assumptions like the make you look like an ass, comrade.
And you can’t do any good in the world with your head up your ass.
Yes, they are better off having those e-mails than not. But following unlawful orders is still illegal. Going public with the orders and stalling for time makes more sense.
BY THE COMPLICIT GOP
to raid the hen house 🤬🤬
The conversation should start with discussion of treason.
Shredding records is designed to obscure what they are doing & to prevent any of this from being rebuilt
I downloaded copies of our employment histories from https://SSA.gov in case they do this there
It’s called sarcasm
Meanwhile why haven't 🍊 taxes been leaked .
Not that the orange idiot isn’t selling anything and everything anyway.
These can be submitted as evidence when Neo-Nuremburg trials against Trump and friends are held.
https://www.unocha.org/
Easier to maintain digital copies & redundancy than it is to retain paperwork redundancy…
There’s warehouses full of carbon copies… but triplicate is still limited compared to digital redundancy.
I was a Photographer's Mate in the Navy, and I know that unless these images are safely in the LOC, the odds of total deletion from Pentagon computers is real.
“History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes” – Mark Twain.
Or the guy who was investigating the Nazi Americans movements?
Shit....small potatoes now compared to NOW.
Of course, The Felon will pardon them all on his way out the door.
Assuming, that is, if he ever leaves.
https://conservativebrief.com/donald-jr-2028-89925/
Ask Rudy.
“The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.”
If you follow an illegal order you will be left holding the bag.
As World War II progressed & Allies advanced, Nazis realized documents would incriminate them.
But, this is not that.
This is the exact opposite.
This is Trump hiding the facts about Legal Contracts he doesn’t want any judge to see!
We deserve to know what they changed, or deleted in our Social Security, student loan, or IRS information.
trumpgate
the objective is to burn it all down
and rule over the ashes
They’re underestimating human empathy, compassion and resilience, however. Most likely because they don’t have any.
Don’t fall for that!
Be quick and get away.