Article snippet: WASHINGTON — The White House put some reconstructed transcripts of delicate calls between President Trump and foreign officials, including President Vladimir Putin and the Saudi royal family, into a highly classified computer system after embarrassing leaks of his conversations, according to current and former officials. The handling of Trump’s calls with world leaders has come under scrutiny after questions over whether a transcript of a July 25 call with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of Ukraine was improperly placed into this computer system. The latest revelations show the focus that White House officials put on safeguarding not only classified information but also delicate calls with Trump, the details of which the administration did not want leaked. A whistleblower complaint accuses officials of trying to “lock down” access to information about the conversation with Zelenskiy by improperly storing the rough transcript of the July 25 call in the highly classified system after the call took place. In the case of the calls with the Saudi royal family, the restrictions were set beforehand, and the number of people allowed to listen was sharply restricted. The Saudi calls placed in the restricted system were with King Salman, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Prince Khalid bin Salman, who at the time was the Saudi ambassador to the United States. While the calls included delicate information about Trump’s discussions about the killing of journalist Jamal Khas... Link to the full article to read more
Some call records were kept on secret server over concern for leaks, officials say - The Boston Globe
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