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Laffy

😳 Via National Security Law: 😳

ProPublica reporter Brett Murphy with an explosive scoop. This is insanity.

ProPublica just obtained a remarkable directive to those remaining 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." Brett Murphy: ... The email came from from the agency's acting executive secretary. I asked Kel McClanahan, a national security attorney, if this was legal. He said: "No it is not," citing the Federal Records Act. "Classified records are still federal records." 11:40 AM • Mar 11, 2025
Urgent imminent records destruction → Kel McClanahan, Esq. <kel@nationalsecuritylaw.org> KM To unauthorizeddisposition@nara.gov * This message was sent with High importance. 11:43 AM I have just learned that there is being put in place at USAID a directive to shred and burn all paper records bearing classification labels and personnel records. Please take immediate measures to stop this destruction of vast quantities of federal records in violation of a large number of applicable records schedules. "ProPublica just obtained a remarkable directive to those remaining 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. The email came from ... the agency's acting executive secretary." Source: https://x.com/BrettMmurphy/status/1899485474088976605
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Riley S. Faelan

@GottaLaff WTF.

(Btw, this is one of the few cases where people familiar with German history wouldn't bring out a Nazi comparison, but a Stasi one. When it was clear that the Mauer would be coming down soon, Stasi tried to shred all of its archives. At one point, the building complex got overrun, the Stasi agents got kicked out, and everything, including the shredded parts, were seized, and are now being painstakingly un-shredded, occasionally leading to prosecution on the basis of criminal acts that Stasi agents committed and took notes on.)

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Riley S. Faelan

@GottaLaff Do we have any idea as to what they might be trying to hide?

Laffy

@riley No idea. Or maybe they just don't want USAID to be able to build back ever.

Mar 11, 2025, 04:53 PM·Public·Web
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Riley S. Faelan

@GottaLaff Maybe Darth Melon committed some sort of fraud against USAID when he was young and lived in South Africa, and he's worried that this might become public now.

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