A senior official at the main U.S. aid agency, which is being dismantled by the Trump administration, told employees to clear safes holding classified documents and personnel files by shredding the papers or putting them into bags for burning, according to an email sent to the staff.
The email, sent by Erica Y. Carr, the acting executive secretary, told employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development to empty out the classified safes and personnel document files on Tuesday. “Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break,” Ms. Carr wrote, according to a copy of the email obtained by The New York Times.
Probably to hide the decades of evidence of US foreign interference and deliberate instability they helped create or facilitate. Do the CIA, NSA, and Pentagon next plz.
I… don’t think USAID is the one doing those things.
Why wouldn’t they be? International development sounds exactly like the kind of agency that would/could be concerned with those things.
Don’t worry, someone will be along to claim it’s always been a CIA front.
Not a Trump or Musk fan but it’s safe to assume all government agencies do this to some degree even if minor.
The issue here is Trump and Musk will take whatever they find, however minor that is, and exploit it. They’ve been blowing everything waaay out of proportion and exposing every government secret they can in an effort to try and make themselves look good and others in the government look BAD.
In reality it’s only making the US in general look extremely untrustworthy to everyone else in the world.
But then again that may be the whole purpose of their little exercise.
More likely they’re trying to keep sensitive documents out of the hands of Trump and Musk, because any foreign interference wouldn’t be a bad thing to them.