Earlier in the month, the network held a document clean-up and retention week during which shredding bins were brought to the offices of various network groups, and employees were encouraged to identify sensitive files for destruction. Since there is no evidence of any active investigation into the Koch network, there’s nothing prohibiting the groups from destroying old files — a security safeguard that’s becoming more common in politics and business as concerns rise about hacking and cyber-attacks.
And Holden on Tuesday told POLITICO that the document shredding was unrelated to concerns about possible investigations from a Democratic Senate, but rather was standard operating procedure “to protect our donors and their privacy and our strategy.”