White House restricted access to Trump's calls with Putin and Saudi crown prince

[orangecrush]

rms of Use.



White House restricted access to Trump's calls with Putin and Saudi crown prince
By Pamela Brown, Jim Sciutto and Kevin Liptak, CNN

Posted at 7:00 PM ET, Fri September 27, 2019


Washington (CNN) — White House efforts to limit access to President Donald Trump's conversations with foreign leaders extended to phone calls with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, according to people familiar with the matter.
Those calls -- both with leaders who maintain controversial relationships with Trump -- were among the presidential conversations that aides took remarkable steps to keep from becoming public.
In the case of Trump's call with Prince Mohammed, officials who ordinarily would have been given access to a rough transcript of the conversation never saw one, according to one of the sources. Instead, a transcript was never circulated at all, which the source said was highly unusual, particularly after a high-profile conversation.
The call - which the person said contained no especially sensitive national security secrets -- came as the White House was confronting the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which US intelligence assessments said came at the hand of the Saudi government.

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/09/27/politics/white-house-restricted-trump-calls-putin-saudi/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F

[sunonmars]

1. We all knew there would be others.......

I wonder if those are now going to be looked at.

[orangecrush]

2. I would bet on it

[sunonmars]

3. Am I right in thinking these records must be preserved...then why has no one seen them?

We are going to find out a lot of whats been going on.

[ArtTownsend]

5. I bet they are...and I really hope that we see/hear them soon.

[Flaleftist]

6. The Presidential Records Act.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Records_Act

On top of that, Schiff issued an order to everyone involved to preserve records.

I'm not familiar with how all this works, but I wonder if by moving them to the top secret server they actually made it more likely that they will be preserved. Only a limited amount of people have access to it. Are any of those people really going to risk the criminal liability of destroying those call records now?

[NightWatcher]

7. Remember, the whistleblower was from the IC.

They hear everything.

[ArtTownsend]

4. Release. The. Tapes!

[UTUSN]

8. Well, of course!1