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Government Archive Agency Says The SEC Was Wrong To Destroy Financial Investigation Files | The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) said in a statement yesterday that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was wrong to destroy documents related to investigations of major financial institutions, a scandal that was recently documented by Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi. “While the National Archives is satisfied that the destruction has stopped, NARA remains concerned that the SEC has been slow in creating records schedules for review and approval,” it said in the statement.

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