This is not necessarily anything sinister. The Government shreds all sorts of stuff legitimately (instead of just chucking it in the trash). First they'll shred stuff with personal info (SSN, etc.) to avoid identity theft. They'll also shred stuff that has proprietary information from one of its contractors to avoid industrial espionage. And, of course, the most obvious is classified information. I think the Government is convinced that some spies are over here dumpster diving around its buildings. Their enforcement of the shredding policy certainly has gone up a notch recently.

I'd like to see this broken down into Party affiliations and government offices.

Let's just see who is doing the shredding.

As FROSTY said much of th shredding is most likely just normal house keeping. But???

Their enforcement of the shredding policy certainly has gone up a notch recently.

A notch of 641%?

On top of the record rate of reclassifying documents previously unclassified?

On top of not responding to FOIA?

On top of classifying even the most mundane documents?

On top of "losing" millions of e-mails?

Nothing to be cynical about, of course.

Good read. Well, not "good" - more painful than anything else - but worthwhile. Thanks Ray.