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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNational Archive to let ICE destroy documents
WHY??? They're destroying history.
https://boingboing.net/2020/02/05/national-archive-to-let-ice-de.html
hizza / 7:00 am Wed Feb 5, 2020
National Archive to let ICE destroy documents
We may never know the truth about the border crisis, writes Matthew Connelly, because the National Archives is letting millions of documents be destroyed.
President Trump has long made it a practice to tear up his papers and throw them away. It is a clear violation of the Presidential Records Act, which is supposed to prevent another Watergate-style cover-up. When the National Archives sent staff members to tape these records together, the White House fired them.
In 2017, a normally routine document released by the archives, a records retention schedule, revealed that archivists had agreed that officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement could delete or destroy documents detailing the sexual abuse and death of undocumented immigrants. Tens of thousands of people posted critical comments, and dozens of senators and representatives objected. The National Archives made some changes to the plan, but last month it announced that ICE could go ahead and start destroying records from Mr. Trumps first year, including detainees complaints about civil rights violations and shoddy medical care.
In 2017, a normally routine document released by the archives, a records retention schedule, revealed that archivists had agreed that officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement could delete or destroy documents detailing the sexual abuse and death of undocumented immigrants. Tens of thousands of people posted critical comments, and dozens of senators and representatives objected. The National Archives made some changes to the plan, but last month it announced that ICE could go ahead and start destroying records from Mr. Trumps first year, including detainees complaints about civil rights violations and shoddy medical care.
These documents include reports of detainee deaths and sexual abuse.
"Wherever books burn, human beings will also burn." Heinrich Heine
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National Archive to let ICE destroy documents (Original Post)
babylonsister
Feb 2020
OP
This. But then when does "should not in a democracy" ever stop the right wing?
Beartracks
Feb 2020
#4
Beringia
(4,316 posts)1. National archive should not be influenced by politics, very dangerous
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)4. This. But then when does "should not in a democracy" ever stop the right wing?
Do Republicans even SEE America as a democracy?
They act like it's a fascist state that just needs to be freed from the trappings of democracy.
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bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)2. ??Same agency that modified photos of an article Trump demo?
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)3. "Wherever books burn, human beings will also burn." - Heinrich Heine
That bears repeating.
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Dem2theMax
(9,653 posts)5. NAZI'S. nt.
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)6. I agree
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)7. I think I'll have to start using the "N" word, though I have never done that
in the past. I will start calling out nazis when they reveal themselves.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,414 posts)8. ICE, a.k.a. Sturmabteilung for Russiapublicans
dickthegrouch
(3,184 posts)9. Spoliation of evidence?
Isnt that criminal?
Archives must at least keep a record of the title of every document destroyed.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)10. Greenwald and Snowden were unavailable for comment