SECRET SERVICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “There are no visitor logs or other system of tracking those who visited President Donald Trump at his winter retreat known as Mar-a-Lago, a Secret Service official confirmed Wednesday [10-4-17].
Responding to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, Special Agent Kim Campbell said that her agency had a smattering of records regarding some foreign dignitaries and law enforcement officers who met Trump earlier this year during his stays at the Palm Beach resort he owns.
However, Campbell acknowledged the lack of a comprehensive or even a routine process for tracking such visitors, such as the one used for the White House…
The Justice Department filed Campbell’s declaration, signed under penalty of perjury, with a federal court in New York late Wednesday night in response to a FOIA lawsuit brought by three transparency-focused groups: the National Security Archive, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University…
U.S. District Court Judge Katherina Failla had imposed a September 15 deadline for the government to turn over information responsive to the FOIA lawsuit, to the extent it was not exempt from disclosure under various legal provisions, such as a protections for personal privacy or sensitive law enforcement methods.”
-Josh Gerstein, “Secret Service: No visitor logs for Mar-a-Lago,” Politico, Oct. 5, 2017 06:44am