In every procedural/cop show Hollywood produces, there are two tropes the writers can’t leave out. It’s as if they are required and will lose their guild membership if they do. Lawyering up is bad (sold as a sign of guilt), as is requiring a warrant before any search. I could go downtown and get a warrant or…
If, however, you are a bureaucrat or any Fed, refusing to allow an inspection of your financial record is a sensible act of resistance in the name of liberty.
Lawyering up and refusing access, as well as the destruction of evidence, are all good.
What can I say, Democrats are hypocritical assholes.
A foreign aid official who refused the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to his agency’s financial records may have had a reason to keep auditors out: he steered illicit contracts to a friend who sent him secret payments, according to a law enforcement affidavit obtained by The Daily Wire.
Mathieu Zahui, chief financial officer of the African Development Foundation, refused to grant DOGE access to its books and told the White House that the agency would not acknowledge President Donald Trump’s appointee as chairman of the board. After a dramatic showdown in March, DOGE physically took over the building with U.S. Marshals, but control of the agency is now the subject of a lawsuit objecting to “swooping in with DOGE staff, demanding access to sensitive information systems” — an objection that reads differently in light of the criminal probe.
Mathieu Zahui funneled aid (sorry, your taxdollars) to “a company in Kenya called Ganiam Ltd” which then made “wire transfers or electronic payments from Gakure to Zahui’s Bank of America account, totaling over $10,000.”
If anyone tries to tell you this was a one-off, tell them DOGE is coming and see if they try to block the doors and lawyer up.
