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To: Ilaine who wrote (118242)	6/5/2005 12:32:21 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793719

The article didn't say ACLU was shredding anything in particular. They said that people were using private shredders so who knew what they were shredding? At least, that's the way I read it. True. Naturally, since the shredders didn't keep a log of what they shredded, of course nobody knows what they shredded. It could have been perfectly innocent -- duplicate copies of memos, bad photocopies, whatever. Or it could have been explosive documents that were shredded to protect against the exposure of bad acts. We don't know. The point is that the discretionary shredding by individual officers or employees violated clear ACLU policies. As I read the article, the policy is that if you want something shredded, you put it in a container and note what it is, and the records custodians decide whether it should or should not be shredded according to written policy. I think that's a good policy for a large organization. But when any individual in an organization can shred anything they want to for any reason they want to, in violation of organiational policy, surely you see that this is not a good thing?