Posted on 03/14/2025 2:03:22 PM PDT by Beave Meister
A federal judge refused Friday to block the destruction of classified documents as part of the building cleanout at the U.S. Agency for International Development, finding that records slated for shredding or burning are old or no longer needed.
The documents don’t appear to be related to the ongoing court battles over the near-dismantling of USAID by the Trump administration, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols found as he refused to grant a temporary restraining order.
The cases come as the Trump administration dismantles USAID, cutting off most federal money and terminating 83% of the programs abroad. All but a few hundred staffers are being pulled off the job and the agency’s Washington headquarters is being shut down. Those remaining bureaucrats were ordered earlier this week to get rid of classified safes and personnel documents from its D.C. headquarters.
“The only labeling required on the burn bags are the words ‘SECRET’ and ‘USAID/B/IO)’ in dark sharpie if possible,” an internal USAID email stated, instructing staffers to request for burn bags or sharpie if necessary.
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You can’t shred electronic records. I bet there are copies on a government server somewhere.
Not to worry folks. They don't appear to be related. Close enough for government work as Dad always told me.
I’d doubt it. Their computers are so antiquated. Musk revealed the retirement records of federal employees are on paper in files in a cave.
Is there still a DOJ and FBI? This sounds illegal.
American Foreign Service Association, et al. v. Trump, no. 25-352 (D.D.C.)
On February 7, 2025, in a case involving the shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Nichols issued a temporary restraining order that blocked the government from putting 2,200 USAID employees on administrative leave as was planned to happen by midnight that evening, reinstating 500 USAID employees who had already been placed on administrative leave, and pausing an order that recalled USAID employees posted overseas to the United States. Judge Nichols’ order is valid until 11:59 p.m. on Friday, February 14.
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This is destroying evidence of criminal activity and the judge is an accomplice.
Secretary Rubio needs to order everything be preserved. Then find out who gave this order and fire them.
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The documents are printed copies of files. IF the files are not destroyed burning the paper is useless. Also, there will be a ledger with the document name, type, assigned number and brief contents. It will say who has copies. The destruction of the copies must be witnessed, and they need to be struck from the register. Failure to follow procedures can result in prison sentences. Anyone doing this is an absolute idiot. Everyone who destroys a document had damned well better get a document receipt stating it was turned in and destroyed. Because the penalties were so severe, I kept my receipts for fifteen years.
Isn’t it illegal to destroy classified docs? Who declassified them for destruction? I don’t believe this judge has such authority. And they complain about Trump abusing his authority!
This is an Executive Branch agency. Kick them out and change the locks! You don’t need the courts to help!
We have rule by power-happy left-wing judges. Sigh.
Why are judges suddenly running the country?
Just send in some federal marshalls and stop the shredding.
The judge knows this how, oh the criminals told the judge. All of these judges need DOGE’d
Judges always like it when you destroy evidence ... right?
But you can wipe them. You know…like with a cloth.
I look forward to the day when our country formally recognizes these people are not actually judges.
Right. The DoJ is MIA. Where are the Marshalls? This is unbelievable. Not only shiuld the evidence destroyers be arrested, so should the judge.
> Is there still a DOJ and FBI? This sounds illegal.
The DoJ and FBI are inert, unless you’re a traditional Catholic, a homeschooler, a pro-lifer, a Trump supporter, you know the list.
Even Pam Bondi and Kash Patel can’t fix it.
It’s way too far gone, utterly infested with destructive vermin.
Think of a house utterly devoured by termites and overrun with rats and ants. The only thing left to do is burn it to the ground and sprinkle the site with radioactive cobalt dust and bury it under tons of steel reinforced concrete.
“We have rule by power-happy left-wing judges.”
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols was appointed by Donald J. Trump.
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