Conservative outfits are scouring feds’ emails
Right-leaning groups have filed tens of thousands of information requests as Donald Trump plans a scorched-earth reign over civil servants.
By Robin Bravender, E&E News, Oct. 30, 2024
As former President Donald Trump vows to “shatter the deep state” and make it easier to fire “rogue bureaucrats,” some of his former aides and conservative think tanks have been collecting federal officials’ internal emails.
The expansive records requests — including some that target career civil servants’ communications — are causing concern among government employees and their allies who fear that an incoming Trump administration might try to use the information they obtain to purge career workers from the federal government.
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