A preservation group suing the Department of the Interior over the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool warned in a new filing that the agency is racing to destroy evidence just as newly surfaced documents undercut its own vandalism story. But a separate Justice Department filing in a related criminal case tells a very different story. “Damage was the result of a botched installation and not vandalism as initially represented,” the DOJ filing said. The foundation’s lawyers argue that inconsistency alone justifies letting them document the pool’s condition immediately, noting Interior has already signaled plans for further work that could erase the discrepancy for good. The post Red flags fly as Trump admin accused of racing to destroy evidence from vandalism case appeared first on Raw Story.