A West Wing meltdown
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Source: Axios
Frustration and anxiety built among White House staffers, who say they went days with no internal communication from Meadows about protocols and procedures — including whether they should show up to work — as COVID tore through the West Wing.
By contrast, the first lady’s chief of staff, Stephanie Grisham, emailed her staff on Saturday advising them to work from home and reminding them of CDC guidance.
And the vice president’s chief, Marc Short, emailed his senior staff at 3 a.m. Friday with an update on the president’s situation and urged them to work from home. Short also had a conference call with his staff on Saturday to take questions and explain the protocol and situation.
A senior White House official said it was "ridiculous'" that there had been no proper internal communication from the chief or operations officials since COVID started rapidly infecting their colleagues: "A bunch of us are talking about it and just gonna make the calls on our own."
Read more: https://www.axios.com/trump-coronavirus-mark-meadows-west-wing-65fb1a74-59b4-4cb3-9326-47aa7d83b946.html
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There has to be copy here somewhere. Do you mean we threw them ALL OUT? Holy shit!
which is why they have gotten away from using desktops and have gone with laptops and/or tablets. Access was supposed to be by some HSPD standard photo ID - e.g., PIV/CaC ID card. These have fingerprints and other data stored on a chip and the card provides authorized access to facilities and campuses, buildings, elevators in some buildings, floors in some buildings, and rooms in buildings, as well as to computers with a smartcard reader.
But then since we're talking about the WH and they made sure to set everything up so that it was "anti-anything-Obama-did-despite-it-being-a-law", then... 
and has been updated at various times since that time (as the tech improved).
But because the GOP likes using their own personal devices and email for "official government business" while pointing their fingers at people like Hillary, then I wouldn't put it past them to be in complete disarray now.
And as a retired fed, I will tell you that the whole process of getting one of those cards is a doozy, and that includes getting them updated (they have expiration dates), getting them programmed correctly for the places that you need to access (including buildings at other OPDIVS/TDYs outside of your own office if/when needed/authorized), and turning them in when you leave the agency or retire.
...will win a Darwin Award?
https://darwinawards.com
(COOP = Continuity of Operations Plan). These usually include "call trees" where (by some method) an employee gets contact (by phone or text or email) notifying them that the plan is in effect and giving them any further instructions.
But as we know, all rules were thrown out.
