
Biden Admin Hit With Lawsuit for Deleting Emails of Former CDC Employees
A lawsuit has been filed against President Joe Biden’s administration over the practice by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of deleting employees’ emails after they leave the agency. America First Legal (AFL), a Washington-based non-profit that describes itself as “the long-awaited answer to the ACLU,” filed a lawsuit due to the destruction of federal records by the CDC in violation of the Federal Records Act. The complaint, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on April 17, specifically names U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, United States archivist Colleen Shogan, and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The lawsuit alleges that the agencies “have a pattern and practice of removing the emails of employees who separate from employment within as little as thirty days from the date of separation.”...
