Paper Shredding Truck Appears Outside DOJ After Gaetz Nomination

[mystery-ak]

Paper Shredding Truck Appears Outside DOJ After Gaetz Nomination

Wendell Husebo 19 Nov 2024

A paper shredding truck was spotted on Tuesday outside the Justice Department, according to a photo from the Oversight Project.

The truck’s appearance suggests the agency is destroying sensitive paperwork before the Trump administration takes power.

“Today a paper shredding truck arrived,” the Oversight Project posted on X. “We have maintained a physical investigative presence by the @TheJusticeDept, which also is more convenient for cooperating sources.”

https://twitter.com/OversightPR/status/1858939565194535293

The sighting comes after President-elect Donald Trump nominated former Rep. Matt Gaetz last week as attorney general to clean up the bureaucracy. “Matt will end Weaponized Government, protect our Borders, dismantle Criminal Organizations and restore Americans’ badly-shattered Faith and Confidence in the Justice Department,” Trump said in his announcement.

Trump transition adviser Mark Paoletta warned DOJ career attorneys last week that subverting, undermining, or sabotaging Trump’s incoming agenda will be cause for termination.

Paoletta cited examples of potential policies the DOJ might have to implement, such as deporting illegal aliens, securing the southern border, banning race-based affirmative action, investigating antisemitism, halting big tech censorship, and granting pardons and commutations to January 6 defendants.

One of Trump’s top priorities is to purge the federal government of rogue and corrupt actors within the administrative state. More on that priority is here.

https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/11/19/paper-shredding-truck-appears-outside-doj-after-gaetz-nomination/

[libertybele]

Only one truck?  No worries, they've got a month or so to 'prepare' for Trump's transition.

[rangerrebew]

Paper Shredding Truck Appears Outside DOJ After Gaetz Nomination
 
Wendell Husebo19 Nov 20242,423
 
A paper shredding truck was spotted on Tuesday outside the Justice Department, according to a photo from the Oversight Project.

The truck’s appearance suggests the agency is destroying sensitive paperwork before the Trump administration takes power.


“Today a paper shredding truck arrived,” the Oversight Project posted on X. “We have maintained a physical investigative presence by the @TheJusticeDept, which also is more convenient for cooperating sources.”

The sighting comes after President-elect Donald Trump nominated former Rep. Matt Gaetz last week as attorney general to clean up the bureaucracy. “Matt will end Weaponized Government, protect our Borders, dismantle Criminal Organizations and restore Americans’ badly-shattered Faith and Confidence in the Justice Department,” Trump said in his announcement.

https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/11/19/paper-shredding-truck-appears-outside-doj-after-gaetz-nomination/

[rangerrebew]

Just a curiosity question, but why would the DOJ not have its own shredding capabilities?

[DefiantMassRINO]

Volume and expediency.

They would bring in help if the volume of shredding had increased to massively above normal.

Also, bringing a 3rd party provides plausible deniability and a smoke screen against the National Archives and Records Administration, Government Accountability Office, and Offices of Inspector General.

Contractors will do what they have been contracted to do, without question and without hesitation.

Shredding documents internally would come under more scrutiny from more Civil Servants asking pesky questions and rattling off document retention and archiving laws, rules, and polciies.

If they need the shredding to be done quick, they bring in outside help.

They should have parked the truck at the loading dock to be less conspicuous, and to avoid becoming the fodder for Internet conspiracy theories.

[mystery-ak]

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[Bigun]

Only one truck?  No worries, they've got a month or so to 'prepare' for Trump's transition.

There is a 30 HP industrial shredder in that truck and it's there so the occupants of the building can honestly say "WE didn't shred anything!" later.

[DefiantMassRINO]

[andy58-in-nh]

This is actually pretty humorous for anyone who works in the private sector, where we have been paperless (no printers/copiers/scanners/faxes) for years....

[berdie]

There is a 30 HP industrial shredder in that truck and it's there so the occupants of the building can honestly say "WE didn't shred anything!" later.

Bingo!!

[Fishrrman]

Maybe that truck also has a hard drive "shredder" in it, too.
Can grind up physical drives into bits and pieces...