This reminds me ov that Robert Redford scene in 'Spy Game', where his character told his secretary to put very sensitive documents in a burn bag - only this is real and very, very dangerous and exceptionally criminal, depending on what information they had.
If the government is concerned with fraud, why not bring it to light? These actions reek of hiding. Where’s that transparent government? Where’s the fraud? Show us the fraud, don’t shred it. I will believe my eyes but not a fucking word from whoever tries to control this narrative.
WTF! The so called people in this administration, and I use that term loosely because they are not human, need to be dealt with immediately. Arrest! Jail! Throw away the key!
Part of what is going on behind the scenes now is the destruction of "Cooperate History" all the documentation in the Federal Government Agencies so that Humpty Dumpty can't be put back together again. Just like when they lost the records of children separated from their families. No Records Kept!
Marginalized communities MUST come together and support one another. We must form strong, local communities across the United States and leave big tech.
We are in this position because of lies spread by conspiracy theorists, racists, bigots and nationalists who weaponize religious freedom to attack innocent communities. You need to divest. Stop giving #meta #airbnb #X #tesla #musk #maga #prime #amazon #uber
Yes, not legal! Unfortunately I wonder how much of it is from the previous administration since Trump leaped on these guys(USAID early). Not a good look regardless for USAID or probably the CIA
Lol on the off chance Democrats ever win anything again at the federal level, there will be nothing left for them to fix. No idea where we go from here
He needs unrest to install marshall law . Will the millitary fire on it's own people and will the people shoot back ? This all goes away if he does . On a completely different note , ghillie suits are on sale ....
He doesn't need the unrest. this narrarive is just excuse to do nothing, until it is way too late.
Martial law is a highly risky proposal for any authoritarian, esp. early on, as there is always the risk it will not be obeyed.The more time you give him to dig in, the worse it will be.
Even with martial law, he cannot stop the midterms! elections are under the control of the states and Congress, not the president, even during martial law.
Curious as to how exactly the email is worded. It feels like they leave enough room to throw the workers who follow orders under the bus if/when that directive comes crashing down with legal challenges.
Here is my solution:
1. Open up a public school and deposit kids on the WH lawn - with lunch bags,
2. Line up patients in hospital beds, equipment., IVs, a few nurses, in the lobby of the WH.
3. Set up tables and umbrellas on the WH lawn and deposit 1 or 2 Nursing Homes more able residents.
We will need to build a new fucking prison for these treasonous fucks. Their sentences will be longer than the motherfucking bible. They will not walk this earth safely nor freely ever again.
Do we have a ticker somewhere of how many illegal activities or broken rules Trump (or Elon and friends) has done since he has been in office? I would like to see it move up in real time
Every time peoples have been conquered, the first thing the the conquerers do is destroy all evidence and documentation of their history.
My heart break for what we've become.💔
ProPublica is doing God’s work protecting us…
It is their finest hour.
This is absolutely insane, what a scoop.
Prediction: DOJ will try to target them soon to silence investigative journalism.
It’s what evil fascists do.
Kash Patel? Pam Bondi going to order it? Trump going to order the DC National Guard to arrest himself? Congress has no enforcement capability, nor do the courts.
The remaining employees should release it all to the public, rules be damned. We are at war with fascism. What part of DO NOT COMPLY IN ADVANCE do people not understand?
There's no law in swine administration. Proven daily since they took over. This is a long long planned coup. I will be expecting election destruction, votes hidden & destroyed. Then hey no voting as the pig says. "They love me so I'll stay"
Wake up and stand our ground.
This will be wash and repeat every time, as the losses in the courts pile up. They’re starting to realize that this whole
Project 2025 gig might not work out after all, so it’s time to cover up their tracks.
Maybe I should not have said “your republic is gone”. Your executive government has been taken over at the top by facsists . There is still resistance in the public service. Congress seems powerless. A few “Republicans” resist. Most Democrats resist weakly. Only Bernie and AOC resist strongly.
Don’t depend on Australia to escape. It’s likely to happen here within a few months. We have a right wing opposition here with a leader that’s a Trump wannabee and they’re likely to win the election. May not be quite as bad but an exteme right wing shift is happening worldwide.
Oh, you’re in Australia? What a coincidence. What about the Canada situation? They had a strong reactionary movement there, but Trump threatening made them all go super liberal. I would assume most other developed countries are gonna have the same reaction to Trump’s abject clown show.
THIS is standard protocol when the ENEMY invades.
Shred/Burn/Dispose of ALL classified materials FIRST.
This IS legal, since they are under siege by an UNELECTED person(s)
remember about 20 years ago when that us military aircraft got forced to land in china?
the crew onboard was celebrated for successfully destroying all classified materials and tech before the plane landed so china didn't get their hands on anything useful
2/2
When Morton Salt bought Thiokol, stripped it for parts, and closed its Huntsville plant, my dad and his buddies classified every document they could get their hands on to prevent this kind of wanton destruction.
What even is this? They are going to shred all these records so there is nothing to connect them to disease outbreaks and starving children!?! It will be obvious what horrible suffering is their fault. What else is recorded at USAID?
This is illegal and I hope with every fiber of my being that the recipients of that order refused to do it. Even more, that they took all the records and brought them to attorneys.
Yes. This isn't an infraction or misdemeanor. They're headed into serious felony territory. Conspiracy with intent to obstruct or impede an investigation. And the destruction of evidence under FRA, those violations will easily rise to level of felony conduct. The list goes on and on.
Tampering with evidence is a very serious felony, and may not be strictly contained in the federal venue. State AGs may bring criminal charges for destruction of evidence and civil rights violations where the state has standing. This could mushroom cloud Musk and willing co-conspirators.
If it was a case of the agency trying to hide information from the Trump administration it would have been screaming bloody murder. The fact that they're silent..
Petition for Emergency Injunction AND protestors outside the building, should be the course of action here. Protestors provide eyewitnesses to who comes and goes, and when. When this gets sorted out, witnesses and participants will need to be identified.
BUT....who is going to be the one STOP them & when are they going to make it happen?! Seems in a LOT of these situations, the Horse has already LEFT the BARN and the door is still wide open for all the Horses to leave as well.
USAID dealt with a lot of very courageous citizens of very dangerous countries. At great risk, working for basic human rights.
The fear is that the current US government might use that information to barter with those foreign governments, in pursuit of some higher purpose (eg. mineral rights).
and they're destroying it so it's hard to rebuild. 50 yrs of USAID records erased with malicious intent. Will they next erase Dept of Ed archives? NOAA archives?
My guess is that this is an attempt to make the unilateral shutdown of the agency without an act of Congress irreversible even if the courts decide that it was unlawful. DOGE has probably already taken care of electronic documents.
Preventing the wrong people from accessing classified information is only half the story. The right people also need the ability to access it when required.
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👉Yeah. Like they were ordered by a Federal Judge to pay all the USAID contracts that had been completed.
👉Now ALL the paperwork on everything will be 'GONE'.
👉(THIS is a common practice used by unscrupulous businesses - to avoid paying what they owe - when they hightail it out of town.
👉AFTER the owners of these businesses have illegally pocketed the $$$s for themselves. )
👉Thing is - the $$$s to pay the USAID contracts 'were' there -
👉and those $$$s were 'supposedly only frozen'.
👉So . . .if those $$$s are 'no longer there' - THEN the question is -
👉🎯into WHOSE POCKETS did those $$$s go???🎯
👉Thing is - the Federal Agencies who normally 'would have' followed up
👉on these types of 'financial indiscretions'
👉🎯have already been done away with by DOGE (as part of their downsizing of government to remove waste and fraud).🎯👈 🙄
It worked for the nazis and all the other criminal dictators.
Most will comply regardless
https://www.tiktok.com/@mauziline/video/7479498655926324511
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/new-apostolic-reformation-christian-nationalism/
But once again & at least twice a day every damn day,
It's unsettling AF
They want to tear government apart and drown the pieces in the bathtub.
They want to do as much damage as possible before they are made to stop.
It’s hard for non-sociopaths to understand, but it’s that simple.
Objective: damage.
Martial law is a highly risky proposal for any authoritarian, esp. early on, as there is always the risk it will not be obeyed.The more time you give him to dig in, the worse it will be.
1. Open up a public school and deposit kids on the WH lawn - with lunch bags,
2. Line up patients in hospital beds, equipment., IVs, a few nurses, in the lobby of the WH.
3. Set up tables and umbrellas on the WH lawn and deposit 1 or 2 Nursing Homes more able residents.
We will need to build a new fucking prison for these treasonous fucks. Their sentences will be longer than the motherfucking bible. They will not walk this earth safely nor freely ever again.
My heart break for what we've become.💔
It is their finest hour.
This is absolutely insane, what a scoop.
Prediction: DOJ will try to target them soon to silence investigative journalism.
It’s what evil fascists do.
The only time you burn federal classified records is when you're in an embassy overseas and the insurgents are breaching the walls.
#MAGA accusations are always confessions. Always.
#Krasnov = Nixon.
Wake up and stand our ground.
Project 2025 gig might not work out after all, so it’s time to cover up their tracks.
Burn the Swasticars & the Emerald Heir in Effigy! Daily!
#BurnTeslas
#FryThatGuy
Guess so.
Shred/Burn/Dispose of ALL classified materials FIRST.
This IS legal, since they are under siege by an UNELECTED person(s)
and they have to evacuate instead of hand off
then destruction has always been SOP for classified materials that are going to be abandoned or captured
1/
the crew onboard was celebrated for successfully destroying all classified materials and tech before the plane landed so china didn't get their hands on anything useful
2/2
https://bsky.app/profile/charlesornstein.bsky.social/post/3lk325hbtpk2s
Servers, maybe?
Vote tabulators?
Court Asked to Intervene After Email Tells USAID Workers to Destroy Classified Documents
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/court-asked-to-intervene-after-email-tells-usaid-workers-to-destroy-classified-documents/ar-AA1AID03
The fear is that the current US government might use that information to barter with those foreign governments, in pursuit of some higher purpose (eg. mineral rights).
Bet the person issuing that order does NOT have immunity from prosecution for destroying federal personnel documents—double whammy!!
#FAFO