AG Ferguson sues federal agencies over Seattle National Archives facility
When the federal government decided, without any public process, to close and sell the Seattle facility of the National Archives and Records Administration earlier this year, a lot of people were taken by surprise.
One of those blindsided by the decision was Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson. He told KIRO Radio at the time that he would weigh legal action to keep the warehouse full of historic photos, documents and maps related to federal government activities in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska right where it is.
On Monday, Ferguson’s office filed a lawsuit against three of the four federal agencies involved in the secret decision to close and sell the federal facility, which has been a fixture in Seattle’s Sand Point neighborhood since the early 1960s.
The first step, Ferguson had said on Jan. 28, was to review how the decision to sell was actually made.
It’s now been nearly six months since Ferguson’s office sent official requests for documents related to the decision to the four separate federal agencies directly involved: The National Archives and Records Administration; White House Office of Management & Budget; General Services Administration; and Public Buildings Reform Board.
And how many pages of documents shedding light on that fateful decision does the Attorney General’s Office now have in hand? Zero, to be exact, from a total of four separate agencies.
“Frankly, that raises my eyebrows, in the sense of are they trying to hide something? Was this a political decision they don’t want us to see?” Ferguson said. “The fact that not one of these four agencies has produced even a single document – I don’t want to get into sort of conspiracies, but are they coordinating this? What’s going on? Why are we not getting a single document from any of these entities?”
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Trump's grandfather ran a brothel in Seattle back in the day. Maybe the feds have some nasty shit on him.
