The email came from from the agency's acting executive secretary.
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."
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."
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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)
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
I’m sorry you didn’t get a live human.
Senators & Reps from Blue areas NEED to hear that their constituents oppose what Trump & Musk are doing
Its good you called
🤦♀️
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.