We reported earlier this month that the CIA was trying to get increased authority to destroy agency email records, claiming anything important in an email would be duplicated elsewhere in agency files. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) took the CIA at their word, and granted tentative approval.

Civil liberties and human rights groups (including the Defending Dissent Foundation) protested, reminding NARA of the CIA’s history of destroying important documents. Seventeen groups called on NARA not to approve the CIA request without further review and independent verification that the emails the CIA wants to destroy are indeed duplicative.

Now, that call is being echoed by members of the Senate Intelligence Committee (SSCI). Senators Wyden (D-OR), Udall (D-CO) and Heinrich (D-NM)