Admitted ordering of the destruction of evidence

#1

… as always … IF TRUE … with this situation if not one single prosecution results then stop talking about DOGE and everything connected. In this case there is a printed on paper admission, with a name, ordering the destruction of potential evidence in possible Federal Criminal activity. If nothing comes of this … then DOGE et al. should just shut up and go away … there is no hope for this system. Oh wait, we’ve already had an episode like this haven’t we … soooo … no one will be charged, no one will be held responsible, no one will spend a single day in jail. That’s right folks it will just be “business as usual”. …as soon as a single case of possible “criminal activity” was discovered why was the (comment below) not done? I would have added to this armed guards and armed escorts in and out of the building, searches for all personnel and material (one at a time out of the building without a care for how long this process take) - this is common practice in private business. The gross incompetence of all involved is absolutely staggering.

I went through a “separation process” when I retired from a job where I had been employed for over 20 years. This was due to the fact that I had a “clearance” status due to some of the research in which I had participated and data to which I had access. I understood the reasoning for the process and was in no way offended.

from a ZeroHedge comment (and correct)

"Easy- Close the office, change the locks and key codes. Wrap the yellow tape - no admittance - CRIME SCENE

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#2

This is a scandal of major proportions, where there is no law chaos follow.

#3

So, if you were to come into power of a completely chaotic, nepotistic, and unreasonably criminal bureaucracy - would you be able to do everything you wanted in the first 60 days?

I think the order is to first trim the fat so you do not have 1 million voices screaming and undermining you at every turn, and then to start the legal proceedings.

I hope that I am right. Maybe I am not.

I do know this, if they don’t start putting some asses in the gray bar hotel, we will be soon visited by civil war, or near civil war. As the leftist I know, they are nearly spitting hatred and violence with every new second because they still have not REALLY suffered any consequences.

#4

Perhaps the model is the downfall of communism in Russia, most got away…

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#5

Deny access, maintain payroll until criminal convictions are completed (while holding your nose if necessary). Not convicted, go back to work. Convicted, go to jail. If the crime scene isn’t secured right away, evidence can be altered or destroyed. Telling the henhouse that a skunk is soon to arrive, will allow the hens enough time to destroy the eggs and deny the fox his buffet. Then, blame it on the farmer for not securing the henhouse. This is the world of ‘make believe’ we live in.

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#6

Nice way of putting it.

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#7

There is likely another side to this. For whatever reason USAID was given read access to some classified data. Yes, some of it was probably about the C*A misuse of funds to do their operations. They were likely given information courtesy copies of documents. It’s unlikely USAID was in a position to initiate/create classified information. They did not have operatives. There is likely no ‘original’ material there…only copies.

So, for whatever reason again, over many years USAID accumulated safes full of info only copies of classified documents.

DOGE cuts the budget of USAID (which I agree with) and the organization is to be absorbed under the Department of State.

If State did not offer a plan for transition of custody of the classified documents to new appropriately cleared personnel, this leaves the custodian of the classified files in a pickle. The framework (physical security at the entrances, security patrols of the facility, cleared personnel vetted by Department of Information Security, 24/365 coverage for protection, IT support for electronic SCIF vaults, etc etc) that provided protection for the classified documents is being removed.

The responsible thing for a classified document custodian to do is what was ordered. What would we want them to do, open up the safes and let homeless people come in and toss these documents around? Some might celebrate this, but the responsible thing to do, lacking a transition plan for custody, would be to destroy them. Again, these are unlikely original documents. The creators maintain ownership/custody of them.

And likely many of them were perishable information what was old. Security personnel don’t have the resources to continuously review, gain permission to and destroy out-dated documents. So you end up with multiple safes full of old outdated but still marked classified information.

I’m not there during the course of this, so I don’t know for certain what’s happening. But worked within organizations that had to protect privileged information in the past. Recommend we should reserve judgment about this until more of the details are known.

We, the alternative media community are emerging into a new world of prominence and need to police ourselves to ensure we keep on a path of truth, and don’t go down paths of blame until pertinent details are known.

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#8

… Given the known track record of our government it would seem much better for our own protection when dealing with any one within that apparatus to think them Guilty until proven Innocent. To do otherwise at this point is folly.

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