‘Most Transparent Administration in History’ Is Shredding Documents and Ignoring FOIA

Trump management gave himself a moniker “The most transparent management in history“It seems that” name only “is something because New York Times tells In an organization of the US International Development Agency in a high-level administration, Elon Musk has started to maintain or break the efforts of the government by the Department of the Government.

Message (see the following e-mail) to the remaining employees of the Agency, the employees of the USAID executive secretary Erica Y. Carr delivered. When the employees first, when the division of a lot of documents and break up, when the breaking is unavailable, when he or she was given a fire or break. CycleDocuments prepared for splitting can contain potentially related information Proceeding legal problems Frozen the help and trump leadership in connection with attempts to demolish agency efforts recently The Constitution was considered the probable violation by the federal judge. Thus, it seems like a transparent attempt to destroy the evidence, which counts something.

The bright and burning initiative can break the federal law. The American Foreign Services Union, a union representing diplomats, the destruction of documents, the federal records that the agents have violated the law violated the law. According to the law, it is not clear that the printing documents are required in digital format before being destroyed, and it is not clear that effort to digitize the documents from the fragment or burnt bags.

USAID is not open to open access to documents. The DOG, which is in a large part to forgive USAID, is trying to operate in as privacy as possible. There is Elon Musk The disguised feeling is suitable On the members of the public employees who will be standard for another government agency. For this day, the DOGE Information Act (FOIA) ignored freedom of desires for the operation so far He claims to be immunity from the process that claims to be “There are president notes“This serves as a shield against public explanations.

It can be changing or at least, it should be. Judge of an district court this week controller The Doge is probably covered with FOIA and “would be harmful with an indefinite delay in discovering public records.” Simply knowingly, you will still have to be done yet. The government has no doubt, the demands of skirting by dragging, editing and foot. But legally, the DoGe seems to be able to like a transparent management, right?