In another, he said, a supervisor ordered him to destroy records.

"I hope people don't view it as a license to destroy records," he said.

It was entirely normal for senior government officials to destroy records.

This might include, for example, a fire destroying records a few days before the filing deadline.

In July 1983, the center's office was firebombed, destroying the building and records.

At the same time, though, thousands of libraries have joined the rush to destroy records.

The police said the ringleader of the group wanted to destroy academic records.

Soon everyone was chest high in water that soaked computers, destroyed records.

However, plans were disrupted by an 1894 fire that destroyed the University's facilities and records of this early attempt at a education school.

Other companies have struggled to do business after having records destroyed.