As usual with propaganda mouthpiece fox news, the "scoop", is complete bollocks
"...In 1960,
the Cleveland Plain Dealer detailed the use of a worked-out limestone mine in Western Pennsylvania that National City Bank used as a bank storage vault. It was constructed as part of a detailed plan to ensure the continuity of their banking operation in the event of a catastrophe, including a nuclear attack.
That bank became one of the few financial institutions in the United States to obtain underground bomb-proof storage facilities. They were to use the same mine located in Butler County, about 60 miles north of Pittsburgh.
At that time, the mine was
operated by the National Storage Company, which already had other similar clients. Many of them were major, blue-ribbon industrial corporations in the Pittsburgh area and other sections of the eastern U.S.
Today, that former limestone mine is Iron Mountain,
which merged with the longtime owner
of the National Storage Company or National Underground in 1998.
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“I think Mr. Musk is misinformed because the workers tell me they don’t just deal in manila envelopes. A lot of their work is digitalized, no question,” he said, adding, “I think the job of DOGE is to be skeptical about everything, and in the end, they will find that this facility isn’t a place of excess.”
Trump won Butler County
by a whopping 65 percentage points.
Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA), of Butler County, who has toured the mine several times, said he, too, believes this will all work out in the end.
“Once there is more nuance and context provided as to what exactly is done here and why it is done the way it is done,” Kelly said in an interview with the
Washington Examiner.
“The space is utilized not just for its size, but the process is also for safety and security,” Kelly said. “During the Cold War, it was considered safe from external attacks. Now, during the digital age, it keeps important government documents safe and preserved if there was a cyberattack.”
Kelly said he understands that the move now is to do everything online. “Everything has to be digitalized. Everything has to be done quickly. All I’m saying is, you know what? There’s a reason why things have a long lifespan in something like the mine. That is a very safe storage space for these documents.”
Elon Musk referenced Iron Mountain, a Pennsylvania limestone mine where federal employee retirements are processed, but its story is complicated.
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comrade stalin
moscow
