Wednesday, September 21, 2005

GOVERNMENT CAUGHT DESTROYING MORE INDIAN RECORDS IN VIOLATION OF COURT ORDERS

Indian Trust - Cobell v. Norton: "September 21, 2005 | GOVERNMENT CAUGHT DESTROYING MORE INDIAN RECORDS IN VIOLATION OF COURT ORDERS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- At the same time that the Interior Department is bragging to Congress about its Indian Trust accounting plan, the National Archives and Records Administration reports ongoing destruction of Bureau of Indian Affairs accounting records only a few blocks from the federal courthouse in Washington.

In a filing last week, NARA disclosed that it is investigating 'one or more incidents...involving what may be intentional acts aimed at unlawfully removing or disposing of permanent records from the Interior Department...'

In the letter dated Sept. 13, NARA attorney Jason R. Baron said that members of the agency 'noticed what appeared to be federal records in one of the dumpsters' at the main achieves building on Pennsylvania Avenue on Sept. 1. Among the records destroyed were documents from the 1950s from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Baron said.

Subsequently, 'more of what appear to be Indian records were discovered in a wastebasket in the stack areas at Main Archives,' Baron said in the letter. 'It is not known if these two incidents are related.'

Baron said both the NARA Inspector General and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia had begun investigations. ..."

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