In an email to staff on Tuesday, USAID acting executive director Erica Carr ordered an all-day effort to destroy sensitive documents at the nearly abandoned Washington, DC, headquarters.
“Thank you for your assistance in clearing our classified safes and personnel documents. Shred as many documents first,” the email said, adding that staffers should stuff remaining classified material into designated “burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break.”
Staffers were also told to write “secret” on the burn bags with a marker.
From The New York Post:
Meanwhile, a union for USAID workers has asked a federal judge to halt any destruction of classified documents to preserve evidence as lawsuits begin to pile up over the abrupt shutdown of the 64-year-old agency.
President Trump quickly moved to start dismantling USAID after Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) flagged widespread waste.
The Trump administration has ended 83% of USAID’s humanitarian and development programs abroad — pulling all but a few hundred staffers off the job and shuttering the agency’s DC headquarters.
The American Foreign Service Association, a group representing USAID workers, said it feared the documents being destroyed could be relevant to the ongoing lawsuits over the firings and program terminations.
News of the classified documents at USAID emerged last month when the agency’s top two security officials were put on leave by the Trump administration after they refused to grant DOGE members access to the material.
🚨BREAKING: USAID is telling people to prepare for an ALL DAY SHREDDING EVENT to burn and shred all USAID documents. This isn't even parody. They're deleting history in real time. SPEECHLESS. pic.twitter.com/akCVyj3juJ
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Even MSNBC covered the shred & burn story.
I didn’t expect this! Even mainstream media MSNBC is reporting the NBC USAID scandal taking place
The fraud and corruption is so blatant even the mainstream media can’t ignore it
“USAID staff is being told to shred and burn while their classified documents quote, U.S. Agency… pic.twitter.com/3FiGM7BsFw
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More over at The New York Post:
USAID staffers ordered to shred, burn classified documents: official https://t.co/ztcpCeFjdx pic.twitter.com/NMkhfHQRNa
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