Posted on 03/12/2025 10:47:25 AM PDT by davikkm
Documents are disappearing. Classified records are being burned. USAID, once a tool of American foreign influence, is being shut down, and the last thing its leadership seems worried about is transparency. A senior official reportedly ordered employees to shred and destroy key records, an act that critics warn could erase crucial evidence of the agency’s past operations. If this is just routine housekeeping, why the rush?
Emails leaked from inside USAID allegedly show an all-day effort to eliminate classified files, with employees stuffing burn bags when shredders weren’t available. Some claim this is standard protocol during a shutdown. Others see it as something far more alarming—an intentional effort to wipe the slate clean before anyone can investigate what USAID was really up to. History is being erased, and the real question is why.
Mike Benz raised a critical point. Samantha Power, who oversaw USAID, may have classified documents that exist only in the agency’s records. If those documents are gone, so is any chance to scrutinize the full extent of USAID’s activities. Congress is watching, but will it act before key records vanish forever? Destruction like this isn’t an accident. It’s a decision.
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Makes no sense for Trump to be doing document destruction as they need to be able to follow the money.
It’s not Trump’s people destroying the documents.
Destroying evidence is a crime.
“It’s not Trump’s people destroying the documents.”
Trump is impotent. He has US Marshall’s, the military and FBI. What does he do? Stands by and let’s the bad guys continue business as usual. This shit is tiresome. Democrats are laughing their asses off because they know the only ones going to jail are illegal landscapers.
I think he probably knows they are on servers and not stored as paper.
Do not Trump / Rubio have the ability to simply lock the doors, keep everyone out of the building, and shut down access to the servers?
Yup! That would be why this story doesn’t make any sense. Change the locks immediately, alarm codes as well.
Have the Deep Statists just fallen into a trap? The coverup is another crime, probably easier to prove.
The money can be traced.
Indeed...and a sign of defeat. The enemy is panicking and in full retreat.
The FBI and DOJ have no say in potential federal crimes, just judges. That’s strange.
“Destroying evidence is a crime”
Yeah, people keep saying that.
All the docs are digitized already.
I thought this building was being emptied and repurposed for CBP? If so, they this is likely just normal activity. Government agencies get copied on documents, and they are put in files.
If this is rogue activity that is attempting to destroy evidence, that is one thing. If this is just getting rid of stuff that is not needed so CBP can move in that is another completely different thing. In that case it is plausible these are not source documents, but copies of other agencies memos, old documents that are just kept around, etc. Surely real documents are kept electronically at this point anyway.
I have moved from one internal corporate office to another many times as we re-organized and consolidated. People kept vast amounts of paper documents that are useless. Copies of copies, drafts, things from 30 years ago, etc. The term hoarding comes to mind.
Sure it is... no one else has access since the Usaid people were moved to the State Dept.
“Makes no sense for Trump to be doing document destruction as they need to be able to follow the money.”
It is certain the White House ordered this.
Certain.
There is a difference between being impotent & following the law.
Trump is not a dictator nor did we elect him to be. The SC and the lower courts are playing games, obstructing and allowing the judicial system to become that of a banana republic.
DOGE already did a deep scan of their systems. These managers do need a deep spanking though.
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