Some U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) employees have received instruction to empty classified safes and destroy agency records, according to a court filing on March 11 by employee unions.
The Democracy Forward and Public Citizen Litigation Group filed an emergency motion on behalf of the unions for a temporary restraining order to stop any destruction of evidence within USAID.
In its motion, the unions included a screenshot of an email from USAID’s acting executive secretary, Erica Carr, directing employees to clear out “classified safes and personnel documents” from the agency’s office in the Ronald Reagan Building starting 9.30 a.m. on Tuesday….