This is the sort of thing you see during revolutions, a war being lost or a consulate having to be evacuated. Having an arm of the government do something like this really shows that the people running USAID think they lost a war to an enemy power and are destroying any incriminating evidence.

A senior official at USAID instructed a number of the agency’s remaining staff to convene at the agency’s now-former headquarters in Washington on Tuesday for an “all day” group effort to destroy documents stored there, many of which contain sensitive information.

The materials earmarked for destruction include contents of the agency’s “classified safes and personnel documents” at the Ronald Reagan Building, said an email sent by USAID’s acting executive director, Erica Carr, and obtained by POLITICO.