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This. You're allowed to shred all the documents you want, anytime you want, so long as you know that what you're shredding isn't the subject of a case where destroying said documents would land you in hot water.
How do you prove you destroyed something, years ago? How do you prove you did not know the Gestapo might come looking for it, when you destroyed it? You can't prove you destroyed it 15 years ago, instead of hours before the Gestapo knock on the door. Remember how Bush 43 trapped Saddam by demanding he prove a negative?
Steve
