Tell Me How Worried You Are About Incriminating Data on Your PC

This says, "Very worried." Eruption In "BleachBit," "Wipe Hard Drive," "Offshore Bank" Searches In DC Suggest Deep State Panic Mode | ZeroHedge

Internet search trends in the Washington, DC, metro area have been nothing short of stunning in recent weeks, reflecting what appears to be growing panic within the federal bureaucracy as President Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) root out corruption in non-governmental organizations (NGO) and federal agencies.

Earlier this week, internet search trends for "Criminal Defense Lawyer" and "RICO Laws" went viral on X, fueling speculation that Washington's political elites were in panic mode. The searches coincided with DOGE's efforts to neuter USAID's funding of NGOs that propped up a shadow government, as well as begin cutting tens of thousands of workers from various federal agencies.

Destruction of evidence is a felony, isn't it? I'm not a lawyer, but at the defense contractors I worked at there were miles of procedures about what data had to be kept, even if you didn't work in the part of the company that dealt with the government. It was almost worse on the commercial side because if you ever got sued, you didn't want to fall short in discovery.

Well, yes, the search term "wipe hard drive" across the DC metro has gone absolutely parabolic.

If your IT department has their act together, and I realize we're talking about the .gov, they should have backups of everything that you can't delete. How do you spell "recover from ransomware?" I don't expect any of the non-tech folks to understand this. At least they've gotten past the "I'll just delete the file/email/text message" stage. When was that? In the 1990s?

Why on Earth would some DC residents panic-search keywords that suggest they are trying to cover up a crime?

They haven't been using agencies, like USAID, to do bad things, have they? They haven't been lining their own pockets with taxpayer dollars, have they?

This the DC employee equivalent of turning on the light, and having the cockroaches scurry for cover.