Timeline for answer to Did the FBI seize former US president's current passport in the Mar-a-Lago raid? If so, did they return it? If so, when? by David Hammen
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| Jan 23, 2023 at 13:34 | comment | added | David Hammen | @Bobson A messy desk screams "treasure trove!!!" to the mole planted by some enemy state amongst your coworkers or planted into the nighttime cleaning staff. Loose lips sink ships, and a messy desk costs lives. | |
| Jan 23, 2023 at 13:32 | comment | added | David Hammen | @Bobson If you did have a clearance you would have been trained on a yearly basis to not have a messy desk. Whenever you go take a bathroom break, go elsewhere to a meeting, go to the cafeteria or to a restaurant for lunch, or leave work for the day, your desk should be immaculate. At a minimum, that means stuffing all of the papers on your messy desk in a file cabinet and locking the cabinet. I suspect presidents, vice presidents, and congress members don't receive this annual training, and if they do, they don't pay attention to it. | |
| Jan 23, 2023 at 9:08 | comment | added | David Hammen | @Ángel I suspect you're young, meaning less than 40 years old or so. People over 60 tend to have messy desks, cluttered with paper. The concept of a paper-free work environment is abhorrent to older workers. (Trump, Biden, and many members of Congress fall into the "extremely old worker" category.) People under 40 tend to have immaculately clean desks. The concept of a paper-free work environment is very appealing to younger workers. It's a mixed bag with people in the 40 to 60 years old range. At least that's my experience; others may vary. But from what I've read, it's nearly universal. | |
| Jan 23, 2023 at 7:24 | comment | added | Bobson | @Ángel - I keep my passport in my desk drawer, and my desk is covered in papers and old bills. I don't have any access to classified documents, but if I did and I weren't particularly careful about them they'd probably end up in the mess on my desk as well. If I actually had to clean off my desk top in a hurry, I'd probably shove a bunch of it into that same drawer. Some people just take less care with important documents than others. | |
| Jan 23, 2023 at 2:44 | comment | added | Ángel | I see why the FBI would want to raid the passports along the classified documents, as incriminating evidence. But, this draws the question: why would the passports be stored in the same place as the documents he should not be possessing? It's almost as if placed together on purpose to show who had stole them. Maybe, if the container was a safe box, it would make sense for passports to also be stored there, but a drawer?? | |
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| Jan 22, 2023 at 21:12 | history | answered | David Hammen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |