Email tells USAID workers to destroy classified docs, court asked to intervene
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However, it does not fail to somehow blame it on the present administration.
As an outsider (not from nor living the US), I find this choice interesting.
Point being: They don't know, yet the article assumes.
The email was sent under the name of Erica Carr — the acting executive secretary at USAID — and bears a USAID logo.
Please continue giving the administration the benefit of the doubt, just not when it's beyond the shadow of one.
>Typically the industrial security people at contractors aren't so naive as to be fooled by an illegal-sounding request from an unknown source.
So you're implying it bears a cryptographic signature?
Nowhere in the article does it state that. It talks about an USAID logo which, if anything, only raises doubt.
>Please continue giving the administration the benefit of the doubt, just not when it's beyond the shadow of one.
There is no benefit of the doubt given to anyone here. Only doubt.
And, again to be clear, I only observe as a third party (not a US citizen nor resident). I endorse no political party.
If this was not an official instruction, the response to the press would be a simple “no, I did not authorize that”. That message isn’t ambiguous and it’s not the kind of thing you’d forget sending.
I'd hope. But I wouldn't count on it.
This is a highly sensitive request, almost certainly in violation of their records policies, so asking for confirmation is about as controversial as a bank teller calling the bank’s president to confirm that it’s really him asking to empty out the vault.
So you're implying it bears a cryptographic signature?
Sorry man, it's already in front of a federal judge. Your "just asking questions" period has expired.
Great. Hoping they'll get to the bottom of it.