It’s not actual cost cutting. Stop calling it that.

Paying a deposit is common when making a reservation at Michelin restaurants in Europe.

This isn’t rocket science or even new. Only the BS part of it is new.

My understanding was nearly everything that wasn’t digitized internally by around 2013ish was with the Archives and in their remit to digitize as of was already with them anyway. Everything after that is all electronic so it can fill out the Development Clearinghouse (DEC). It’s a whole lofty academic library aspiration, except that the DEC is a black hole because the search function sucks. Sucked. It’s gone now.

Also, let’s not divulge too much personal info in public by asking the right questions, OK? It’ll be worth it.

Is USAID large enough that, being co-located with another large agency in 99% of its overseas locations, and working closely with that agency which manages numerous annexes with scifs around DC, that it should warrant its OWN classified system? Can you find any documents supporting that?

Is there already a well-established practice and policies of formal reporting from USAID using that other agency’s system for unclassified documents?

Hint: https://fam.state.gov/fam/05fah02/05fah020440.html

What is the name of the classified system that other large agency, large enough to be a department, uses? Hint: it’s a basic portmanteau in the document above.

Is that the same name as is found in this public document as showing that a small agency with only a few hundred or maaaaybe a thousand staff with S or higher clearances, producing very few classified documents per year per this same document, might be using? https://oig.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2018-06/9-000-16-001-p_0.pdf

Anyone who knows about this stuff in detail has zero feelings about shredding documents because they had to do that anyway to clean out their desks over the last month.

That was all digitized during the Obama administration. NAR has it all.

FOIA your face off, see how much you end up with. It’ll be plenty.

Lol, not without Rubio authorizing it and a lot of tedious legwork in Virginia data centers. Friendo, you clearly don’t understand these systems and for some reason think you do.

Also, why would he even purge anything of he could? His people wanted to see what was in the paper records 5 weeks ago and got pissed they were denied access. They came, they saw, they didn’t get anything they wanted, and they left. Meanwhile, Peter Marocco is still there with read access all along. All the financial records are still there, still public.

This is the year 2025, and you all are worried about paper records?

Stop to think…where does a paper classified record come from? If “printed from a classified computer” didn’t cross your mind, I suggest you check your underinformed outrage. Anything old enough to be historical should already be at the National Archives.

USAID is moving out of all its offices, so getting rid of paper copies of records falls squarely into Federal records retention policies.