🧵 Destruction of federal records outside the confines of the Federal Records Act (FRA) is a crime.
That destruction is going on right now.
To report report unauthorized disposition, email UnauthorizedDisposition@nara.gov.
The FRA has not been enforced anywhere in the federal government over the last 16+ years. archives.gov/news/topics/fe…
2) Any federal employee altering or destroying a federal record, prior to meeting its appropriate National Archives & Records Administratin (NARA)-approved retention period, after November 5th should be caught and prosecuted for violating the Federal Records Act.
Each agency's Senior Agency Official for Records Management and Agency Records Officers must also be held legally responsible.
Trump47 should remove & replace failed NARA leadership and comprehensively reform the government's records management system.
Want answers and ideas? Talk to @DonLueders. ecfr.gov/current/title-…
4) Here's what the federal law says: Anyone who willfully and unlawfully tampers with federal records "shall be fined ... or imprisoned not more than three years, or both," and shall be fired, and banned, from government service.
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5) It is against federal law for an agency, and responsible agency officials, not to report the concealment or destruction of federal documents and records. ecfr.gov/current/title-…
6) If it was up to me, I would prosecute all present federal officials who illegally destroy federal records, on individual charges PER DOCUMENT DESTROYED, so that each offense carries its own 3-year imprisonment sentence.
7) Start prosecuting the underlings who can't afford to lawyer up, so that they rat out their superiors and turn state's evidence.
8) Kudos to @SpeakerJohnson for warning Biden-Harris officials to preserve all records. breitbart.com/politics/2024/…
9) Another book to throw at 'em on records destruction: 18 U.S. Code § 1361, the law penalizing destruction of government property or contracts.
Documents and records are government property and they are valuable.
Penalties provide for imprisonment for up to 10 years per offense.
law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18…
10) Twenty years in prison for this one, 18 U.S. Code § 1519:
"Whoever knowingly alters, destroys, mutilates, conceals, covers up, falsifies, or makes a false entry in any record, document, or tangible object with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence the investigation or proper administration of any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States or any case filed under title 11, or in relation to or contemplation of any such matter or case, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both."
law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18…
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