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... Watkins's testimony indicates he never saw the disks in question until Youngflesh waved around an envelope and said, "Aha! Look what I found!" ...
What kind of moron keeps secret stuff "hidden" in that sort of highly visible manner...or writes down all his passwords and stores them in a highly visible white envelope sticking up on the shelf? ...

Yep. the Youngflesh "evidence" smells like yesterdays fish.

But the password thing is normal. I've seen clients who'll put their password on a post-it note on their monitor, or pencil it on the keyboard.
Stealth Ninja Dave is slipping.

I still want to know why the FBI was involved from Day 1. The reason they got involved so quickly with Elizabeth Smart case is because police thought she could have been taken across state line, thereby requiring FBI. Who asked for the Feds? I am sure they were not justing driving thru the neighborhood and noticed some activity on the Van Dam's street and stopped to see if they could help.