If USAID was the charitable wing of the U.S. State Dept., why would the remaining senior leadership be instructing all employees to urgently start destroying all records? The answer is easy, the charity mission of USAID was a front for the real operational mission of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
USAID has always been a CIA operation within the U.S. State Department silo. The documents they are now being told to shred and burn with urgency are the CIA operational details of how USAID manipulated foreign governments and CIA assets. This is one big coverup operation.
WASHINGTON DC – A senior official at USAID instructed a number of the agency’s remaining staff to convene at the agency’s now-former headquarters in Washington on Tuesday for an “all day” group effort to destroy documents stored there, many of which contain sensitive information.
The materials earmarked for destruction include contents of the agency’s “classified safes and personnel documents” at the Ronald Reagan Building, said an email sent by USAID’s acting executive director, Erica Carr, and obtained by POLITICO.
“Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break,” the email said. Carr instructed staff to label the burn bags with the words “SECRET” and “USAID/B/IO/” (agency shorthand for “bureau or independent office”) in dark Sharpie. The email didn’t provide any reason for the document destruction. (read more)
Average Americans are just now starting to get a glimpse of how the DC political system is factually a Potemkin village maintained as a front to give the illusion of democracy while the Intelligence Community controls the functional outcomes of government.
President Trump is like Toto from the Wizard of Oz, exposing the groups behind the DC curtain. More and more people are getting alarmed as their preconceptions of American government are being challenged and destroyed before their eyes. Questions about how long this has been going on are commonplace.
The Intelligence Community has been in slowly increasing control of American government for decades. The Patriot Act was simply booster fuel to complete the takeover. The CIA now operates domestically, domestic clandestine operations inside America, and congress does absolutely nothing to try and stop it because they know the ‘six ways from sunday’ group are too dangerous to confront.
President Trump represents a threat to this system of intelligence control over government.
I suspect that all of the documents being shredded originated from a computer keyboard and therefore have digital files. Good luck, dims, with trying to prevent those files from being recovered by the DOGE folks. You even gave DOGE the target time-span!
Elon has a copy
Every last one of them!
re: “USAID Employees Told to Destroy Documents, Shred and Burn Everything ”
There is a big ‘disconnect’ here.
DOES anyone else remember the story(s) about people were locked out of the US A.I.D. building (AND the name on the building even was being removed/changed)?
Pepperridge Farms remembers …
I didn’t know that Politico was a trusted source of information now. Between this and the whirlwind of chaos surrounding the cease fire or peace talks or whatever the meetings/ talks are supposed to be with regard to Russia/Ukraine, I sense a gaslighting/shiny object/clown show taking place. But I’m going to ignore all that, get dressed, head out and go buy a Tesla because . . . just because.
IMESHO, why would I trust an article from “politico” or “the hill”, and the only reason to read such stuff is to try and understand what the “other side” is trying to promote. IMESHO, also throw “USA today” in that same bucket.
Don’t get Pepper ridge farms part? Care to explain…
It was a commercial in the 1980s and is somewhat of a meme for those in that generation.
I was raising crum chrunchers in the ’80, but have never seen it other than on the boob tube.
Except we called it a slogan, not a meme 😉
Meme. Its a meme …
I recognized it immediately! 😱 That’s one reason I responded. I reckoned two things: 1) you are a kindred spirit, and 2) you have a wonderful sense of humor. 👍 These times require a light touch sometimes. Thanks!
Laughter is the best medicine 💊
Slaughter Is The Best Medicine
~The Joker
What was the title of a popular feature in Reader’s Digest magazine?
(I’ll take Things I Already Know for $100, Alex.)
And yes – laughter beats anything from Pig Pharma.
Memes are a meme. The modern generation doesn’t have them.
I remember. The images were posted all over CTH. When I saw this story yesterday that was my first question. Something doesn’t fit.
Houston ??
I remember one of the Vindman brothers wanted in to the building when DOGE closed it up. The documents in a safe may be one of a kind and not on computer file, possibly.
Can’t they be stopped by one of these Feeral Judges from destroying evidence? Where is that pesky bureaucrat over at the National Archives looking for the paper work?
When I read stuff like this, I naively thought, “never in America” but USAID is almost an exact repeat:
Stasi files: The world’s biggest jigsaw puzzle
More than 20 years after the Berlin Wall fell, you might think the Stasi had been consigned to history. But a new generation wants to know what the East German secret police did to their parents, and computing wizardry is about to make it easier to find out.
The German Democratic Republic (GDR) and its agencies did not disappear immediately once the Berlin Wall fell.
For some weeks afterwards many Stasi staff remained in their offices, trying to destroy evidence that could land them in jail or expose their spies in foreign countries.
But they ran into technical difficulties.
“The Stasi was an organisation that loved to keep paper,” says Joachim Haussler, who works for the Stasi archives authority today.
It therefore owned few shredders – and those it did have were of poor East German quality and rapidly broke down. So thousands of documents were hastily torn by hand and stuffed into sacks. The plan was to burn or chemically destroy the contents later.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19344978
Did you steal that from Olga Bazova? …. She’s a Russian and pro Russian Twitteress who uses that catchphrase ALL THE TIME
WAITING to see if this will be an event like at a Chinese embassy/consulate here in the US some years back where the staff was observed fueling a ‘burn barrel’ in the courtyard inside their compound …
That was in Houston, TX at the China Inc. local consulate (branch office). It did happen and it was TX Rangers who did allot of the stopping, before the FBI took over.
I was thinking it was Houston, and at a consulate …
USAID HQ was more or less the WEF’s consular mission in America
And still nothing has been done about Mary McCord and Judge Boasberg.
Still haven’t seen and cuffs!
And, what makes people believe that we ever will?
Can’t wait for the public hanging!
Also can’t the FISA court judges be hamstrung by revoking their security clearances
I like your thinking!
Ok …..DOJ Bondi why isn’t carr being arrested or at least stopped in her tracks and the agency warned not to destroy any documentation. Waiting…
Deep State WINS again. A few FIRINGS with full pensions and possible back pay when rehired when Elon leaves. Deep State always WINS with no arrests. Just a temporary setback until Elon is gone.
And that is exactly why I have been saying for years now, ” Only We the People can fix this!” 🖖🏼
Immediate building lock out…..too late.
Weren’t they already locked out of the building weeks ago?
One of the best indicators I can think of re: PDJT’s compliance with at least some portion of the IC.
Is the apparent lack of forward thinking, or a Cause vs Affect course of action?
If you’re planning to Purge, any source of criminal activity or corruption.
You must consider, What happens when the first door is knocked down?
What happens is, Evidence/Suspects become exposed.
Thus not having a plan to secure those suspects, that evidence.
Before you hit the door. IMO indicates either, a complete lack of experience, or, a means by which to providing an Off Ramp to those responsible for the nefarious conduct, you sought to expose . .
Time will tell, however my experience with Burn Barrels is, they are 100% Untraceable.
FISA?
By now there should be several slam dunk arrest candidates. Start with one, wait a bit, then arrest the next one. After several rounds of this, the compadres of theirs should be spending at least some time looking over their shoulders. That might slow them up a bit, and you might get useful info for the next round of arrests.
Oh, well…I can dream, can’t I?
ahhhhm don’t you just love sunshine!
Intriguing, in light of an X-tweet just sent out by White House Deputy Press Secretary, Anna Kelly, who says the shred order is nothing to worry about…in fact, she even calls the reporting on it “…fake news hysteria!”
Here’s Kelly’s tweet:
“This (the order to shred documents) was sent to roughly three dozen employees. The documents involved were old, mostly courtesy content (content from other agencies), and the originals still exist on classified computer systems.
More fake news hysteria!”
— Anna Kelly (
“These aren’t the droids you’re looking for….”
“…move on.”
Nobody will go to prison for shredding documents or obstruction, it happens all the time in the swamp. A lot of people will go to prison if the truth of what USAID was up to gets out.
I recall famous Colonel(not a potted plant} who ran into a Democrat storm over document destruction?
The Dems are soooooo good at raising hell.
I’m pretty sure the Dems are going to go to hell!! That whole group is disgusting, like Soros, Obama etc. Actually, I think they will be happy that America would be a socialist nation God forbid!
USAID from its very begining was an organization engaged in data collection on individuals under the guise of humanitarian missions.
Of late, it partnered with the Gates Foundation for its data storage & computational capacity. It also partnered with contractors, who also acted as data repositories.
In Haiti, where 2% of the aid reached the ground, 90% of the citizens’ cash economy, including overseas transactions was mapped thanks to mobile banking “aid”.
In Indonesia, in 1965, it’s believed millions were slaughtered in the aftermath of a coup. Death squads had kill lists, but no one is sure of where the lists came from. Couldn’t be those academic social scientists on the ground.
Missions in Cambodia & Laos, arms for food to Saddam, IDIQ’s for training security forces in Iraq under the CPA, grants to Baric Lab, Metabiota & EcoHealth…
That’s what’s in the classified safe, imo.
Anyone with a functioning brain knows that the US Federal Government, on balance, is an illegitimate criminal syndicate that uses stolen elections and blackmail to retain unelected power. A trait that deep blue cities, counties, and states also have to a lesser extent only because they can’t print currency.
This is precisely why honest elections and free markets are so critical. The concentration of political and economic power always results in this type of tyranny, where the few exploit the many.
I’m less concerned with evidence and punishment and more concerned with how We the People get our country back?
I have complete faith in God’s ability to deliver justice. All their heinous crimes are recorded in Heaven. Many of the worst have less than 20 years of natural life left.
I wouldn’t trade places with any of them for all the Gold in the world.
Mark 8:36
Military action against the tyrants and their progeny is the only way forward.
Except you can’t count on the military to do the job right, only We the People can fix this!
BRING BACK TAR AND FEATHERING!!!!
I disagree with only. There are plenty of examples of steady social pressure making the shift as peaceful as anyone could hope for.
These parasitic governments always fail; it’s only a matter of how.
Though JFK said it best, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.”
Does this whole endeavor not smell of criminal enterprise?
if this email was sent to 3 dozen employees,just who leaked it to the press?
The fact that Politico reported on it tells you it was not what it appeared to be. They would never interrupt the swamp in covering their tracks. NEVER.
The White House press secretary said,” this story is fake news.”I find it strange this story ends up being leaked all over the media and that the leftist group trying to stop the decimation of USAID in the courts is also asking the courts to stop the destruction of these records.Something about this story does not pass the smell test.
We need to stop reacting without reviewing sources.
This is a psyops of a routine clean up before turning offices over to another agency (customs and border patrol)
Reporting sources CBS, POLITICO, PRO-PUBLICA. Have we learned nothing?
Here is an article on it look at the title and check out the source TDS all over the place.
FTA
“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.”
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/groups-court-stop-trump-destroy-usaid-documents/
She is the acting director of a department that was gutted do you think Trump is stupid?? They need a team that has a security clearance to do this and make decisions if its shred-able or not. It was an email not a coded message
Read the tea leaves here and move on. Don’t fall prey to hysterics. Don’t fall for the demoralization attempts or support the people we hate.
☝🏻Well said 👍🏻
“Have we learned nothing?”
Guess not.
I’m sure this is somewhere else in this thread but;
White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly said it’s “more fake news hysteria.” “The USAID building will soon be occupied by CBP,” Anna Kelly said. “This was sent to roughly three dozen employees. The documents involved were old, mostly courtesy content (content from other agencies), and the originals still exist on classified computer systems,” she said.
“More fake news hysteria!” she added.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/white-house-responds-email-senior-usaid-official-ordering/
Thank Goodness we have Pam Bondi in there to handle this.
IF you didn’t order that thru Amazon Prime, you won’t be getting it the next day …
Bondi is knee-deep in blacking out the Epstein files.
Well, bless your heart…
I cannot help but believe that you must be one blissful person…
In God We Trust
Trust God
Fear not
Source: Politico
WH Response: This is fake news
Who is suing to block the activity: Liberal/Democrat orgs
Maybe a lot of people need to snuff out the hair-on-fire and think a bit more deliberately about what’s actually going on here?
Remember a few weeks back? Politico = US AID. Do the math.
Yeah, shred the documents, because no one keeps digital records anymore. This is the stuff of bad movies.
Everyone that checked into the “now-former”USAID HQ on Tuesday should be immediately arrested and detained without bond for destruction of Government Documents, Evidence, and any other crime that Bondi and Kash can think up.
DOGE should track it all down and reassemble everything.
Then track all the money and claw it back, and arrest all the recipients.
This is no different than Hitlery destroying all her cell phones.
Will the PBI all them to do it?
Next Track who in the CIA gave the order. I think if I were PDJT I would use the most recent missile attack on Moscow as reason to shut down Langley for 90 days and let a DOGE team run wild in there.
this has been reported as fake news…. docs were outdated ones, not classified: https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2025/03/11/senior-usaid-senior-staffer-instructions-remaining-staff-to-convene-for-an-all-day-document-destruction-n2186550
the democrat playbook is never without drama….
The FBI along with the Defense Security Service should have secured those documents when this all started. There is one problem. The CIA does their own SCI and SAP classifications independent of the Defense Security Service. This should be stopped going forward. Where is the oversight?
And between this move and the results of yesterday’s mtg in Riyadh, I think we got the answer to your question about Rubio.
Let every employee know that obstructing justice and shredding evidence is a felony, and everyone that participates in it will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Time to fill up those empty Jan 6 cells with some real criminals. It is interesting that in both cases, when the DemocRats were prosecuting AND when the DemocRats are facing prosecution, it was them who destroy evidence. Why could that be? THINK!
One timeline can be that Americans will now know the illusions they’ve been living, but be unable to do anything about them.
It’s like living in communism. You’ll know the people at the top aren’t really elected, and are stealing your money, but raising your voice too much will get you in jail on some fake charges.
All indications are, if Trump doesn’t get this fixed in the next 4 years, this is where we’re heading. People will accept the new normal.
Hopefully an executive order was sent telling all of federal bureaucracy to preserve all records in addition to and regulations and laws requiring it.
The statements of this short posting seem to me to be true. Other than the influences the Presidents may or may not have had, these statements sound totally factual to me. Therefore, thanks to the CTH for stating what many people over the last 100+ years have been saying about the CIA. We now know most of those people, many of whom have perished in suspicious ways, have been correct and we had better go back to the organizational days of the CIA to find the entirely true history of that organization.
You cannot defeat your enemy until you know how he has done everything you know he did. We are moving into the where and how phases as we are dismantling the who and what phase of our awakening. Historians cannot afford to mess this up, or it will all happen again and again.
Wait. This isn’t a complete picture. The shred order is being fought by the fired employees (union) via TRO. What i read on Fox is that it’s being done because all the documents are old and available digitally, and that it is to make room for Customs and Border Protection which is to move into the building). The employees shredding are active (not fired or on administrative leave).
OK, maybe I”m past my “Use By” date, but Elon and DOGE go to USAID first and start copying and digging through files. What’s left to shred and burn?
I’m sorry, but I am at a complete disconnect on how it can be reported that an agency within the government is shedding (implying an ongoing action perpetuating into this moment) documents while at the same time NO ONE is asking why NO ONE has shown up to stop this action. Federal Marshals? Someone? Anyone? Why is no one even asking?????
exactly.my little sister posted this on another site and “oh its a big cover-up by the trump team”.she was a trump supporter and couldn’t wait for him to take office.BUT then a friend had a relative who was somehow connected to usaid and got canned,now she is all in against trump.
Before going off the deep end by grabbing the torch and pitch fork … let this story unfold.
Anyone, in Government as well as Commercial Business, who deals with classified stuff knows … that when shutting down; a project, program, office, business unit, et al … clean up of ALL classified materials has to occur per the Security Classification Guide used by that entity.
That means: returning stuff and destroying stuff by; destruction, electronically wiping, shredding and/or burning the materials per the entities Security Classification Guide.
USAID offices have been CLOSED and operations TERMINATED … they have classified materials … let the story unfold as to the legitimacy of these actions.
Should be easy to round up the document destroyers…..
So, if a RICO crime family is shredding evidence and the FBI knows they were going to do it, why wasn’t at least one person arrested so that the destruction of evidence could have been stopped? Maybe the FBLIE and Blondie don’t intend to arrest anyone at the CIA and put a stop to this. Are they scared? If so, they need to resign and go curl up in a corner.
Scared?
Or complicit…
So who is telling the truth?
I don’t believe the WH spokesperson.
Anna Kelly, a spokesperson for the White House, downplayed such concerns in a social media post late Tuesday.
“This was sent to roughly three dozen employees,” Kelly wrote. “The documents involved were old, mostly courtesy content (content from other agencies), and the originals still exist on classified computer systems. More fake news hysteria!”
A former USAID staffer confirmed the veracity of the email and described the destruction of agency documents as unprecedented.
“I’ve never seen something like this — en masse. Everyone with a safe is supposed to keep it up to date and destroy documents when they no longer need to be stored.
Sometimes security will check your safe and tell you if you have to clean out old material,” said the former staffer, who was granted anonymity due to fear of possible reprisals by the Trump administration.
Something smells.🦨
Yes, USAID apparently used corrupt practices over many years… producing work documents.
Anna Kelly responding with “roughly”, “mostly” & something like ‘multiple copies exist anyway’ doesn’t sound good.
Are the records fully-secured & their storage area sealed?
Even AG Garland could do that- (over & over)!
… and no one is arrested, no one is being held accountable, and they will be absolutely nothing done about it. Once more the rats will be allowed to scamper away in the night. Once more we are being played by our own government.
The wonderful thing about all of this is that now-a-days most “documents” are stored digitally, whether there are paper copies of them or not.
And I’m betting the “boys” in the band copied all those documents on their first entry into the matrix.
Can’t this be stopped by Federal Marshals while an emergency injunction is applied for?
And many of these vermin are now in politics. Slotkin is one of them. Slotkin and her ilk are in 100% of powerful positions and act as gatekeepers to ensure only those like them remain.
The CIA should be completely dismantled and rebuilt ASAP!!!
If this information is public, why wouldn’t the Justice Department and the FBI immediately arrest the “Erica Carr’s” of the bureaucracy who are willfully destroying government property? This is what bothers me and many Americans. There is no logic to not responding with swift and definitive action. If it were you or I announcing to destroy public property, we’d be swatted in a nanosecond. Don’t tell me “six ways from Sunday”. Those days are over. Pam and Kash need to get their butts over to the Ronald Reagan Building with a team of agents and start the arrests.
may end up in a chicken house fire? ring any bells
But you’ve certainly seen a lot of Pam Bondi on TV.
She deems that more important.