The White House said the instruction was sent only to about three dozen employees, and that the documents that were being destroyed were old.
Some U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) employees have received instruction to empty classified safes and destroy agency records, according to a court filing on March 11 by employee unions.
The Democracy Forward and Public Citizen Litigation Group filed an emergency motion on behalf of the unions for a temporary restraining order to stop any destruction of evidence within USAID.
“Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break,” Carr wrote in the email. The contents of the documents are unclear.
The unions alleged that Carr’s directive violates the Federal Records Act (FRA), which requires federal agencies to preserve internal records, and could destroy documents pertinent to…
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