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Records destruction at USAID, one day after court rules records on DOGE are subject to FOIA request [1]
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Date: 2025-03-11
I just read the court decision issued March 10, yesterday, that requires OMP (Office of Management and Budget) and DOGE (United States DOGE Service) to comply with the FOIA requests submitted by CREWS (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington). They requested records going back to November, and the court basically sided with CREWS and is requiring them to produce these records.
Then just a few minutes ago on March 11, today, I see that the staff at USAID is being asked to destroy documents, which is illegal because of strong federal retention laws for public records. That news, published as a diary entry here on the Daily Kos is titled “The Wholesale Shredding of Government Documents just ordered at USAID,” by diarist Jamess.
Gee, I wonder if these two things are related?
Also, Jacob Knutson, at Democracy Docket, has a new story today that says in its first paragraph:
“Unions representing career diplomats and federal workers filed an emergency motion against the Trump administration to prevent officials at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) from violating federal law by destroying classified records.”
If this emergency motion is granted and the administration doesn’t stop, and the courts have
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