Court steps in after USAID employees ordered to shred or burn classified documents

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A senior official at the U.S. Agency for International Development ordered the agency’s remaining employees to destroy internal documents at the now-former headquarters in Washington on Tuesday, according to an email sent to staff, setting off a legal challenge on Tuesday.

Employees were instructed to destroy items in the agency’s “classified safes and personnel documents” on Tuesday at the Ronald Reagan Building, according to an email sent by the agency’s acting executive director, Erica Carr, which was obtained by the Washington Examiner. 

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