A USAID official instructed employees Tuesday on "clearing our classified safes" by shredding documents at the embattled foreign aid agency's Washington headquarters.

The only labeling required on the burn bags are the words 'SECRET' and 'USAID/(B/IO)' in dark sharpie if possible. If you need additional burn bags or sharpie markers, please let me or the SEC ...

and adds that the “only” labeling required on the burn bags, in Sharpie, are the words “SECRET” and a USAID designation. The document-destruction directive is raising alarms among good ...

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Carr instructed staff to label the burn bags with the words “SECRET” and “USAID/B/IO/” (agency shorthand for “bureau or independent office”) in dark Sharpie. The email didn’t provide ...

which bore a USAID logo. “Shred as many documents first,” the email continued, adding that staffers should stuff remaining classified material into designated “burn bags for when the ...

The email asked staff not to overfill the burn bags and label them with the words "SECRET" and "USAID (B/IO)" - which stands for bureau, or independent office - using permanent markers.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) reportedly initiated a document ... “Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable ...

It comes as the Trump administration has been dismantling USAID, cutting off most federal ... remaining classified material into designated bags for burning if the demand on the shredder becomes ...

When the shredder is tired, it will reach the burn-bag phase. The Elon Musk-led destruction of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) that began in early February, with a freeze of ...