Olivia Troye, who served as a homeland security and counter-terrorism adviser to former Vice President
Mike Pence, says it was "a known thing" in the Trump White House that her colleagues were sometimes careless in handling sensitive documents.
"I found classified information in the ladies' room of the White House one time in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building," Troye said during an
interview with MSNBC following
explosive revelations about top secret materials seized at
Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home during an
FBI search last week.
The discovery of files in the bathroom happened before the pandemic, Troye told Insider, adding that she "thought it was odd that someone put them down and forgot them."
Troye, who eventually left her job in the administration and has become a
critic of the former president, said she immediately turned the materials over to security.
"I covered it up, I put it in a folder. It wasn't marked properly," she said Friday. "I was not expecting to walk into the ladies' room and find a document like that."
In a follow-up interview on Sunday, Troye told MSNBC that she can still "remember the panic" when she realized what had been carelessly left on a bathroom shelf.
"There is sort of a blood-pressure rise in you where you pick it up, and you're like, 'Oh what do I do with this? I have a responsibility to protect it.'"
Olivia Troye can “remember the panic” of realizing what was left on a bathroom shelf but said mishandling sensitive documents was “a known thing” in Trump’s White House
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"You do have a responsibility to protect the information," Olivia Troye, a former security advisor, said. "You don't carry it home and store it."
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Olivia Troye can 'remember the panic' of realizing what was left on a bathroom shelf but said mishandling sensitive documents was 'a known thing' in Trump's White House
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