Posted on 09/27/2019 5:47:52 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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.
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Is this Boltons' Revenge?
Oh no....
why didn’t they post them on the internet?
impeach!
What’s this, more gossip and innuendo from friendly neighbourhood CNN? I’d rather read what the National Enquirer or Globe has to tell me while I’m at the grocery store, lol.
It’s called executive privilege.
ES Democrats.
You are all going down.
Everything he says is leaked, why wouldn’t he tighten up who can listen in?
Because it’s no one’s damn business!! I want to see Obama’s phone calls with every single world leader when he was President
“I’ll be more flexible after the ‘lection!”
FUCnn
What’s this, more gossip and innuendo from friendly neighbourhood CNN? I’d rather read what the National Enquirer or Globe has to tell me while I’m at the grocery store, lol.
In other words, you are exactly correct. My sentiments exactly.
Obama was sending Ruskies through our missile silos and stalling new weapons development.
I’m watching this and thinking that if the House subpoenas this, and courts uphold the subpoenas - the solution is in Trump’s hands, in his power to declassify. He can declassify records from previous administrations and send those littered in the subpoena response. So, the Schiff committee opens up the files for the subpoena response and the first page is responsive but the second is the parts of the Starr report that didn’t make it into the public report - but were in a high security room for Senators to review before the impeachment vote in 1999. By sending it (and any other choice secrets from prior Democratic administrations) you make it game. And you let it leak from the House. If this is what they want to pursue - I say burn them down!
Duh!!
He hasn’t even declassified the FISA docs like he said he would.
We should make Trump broadcast all his calls on CNN.
Of course not- these leakers are protecting Iran.
and courts uphold the subpoenas -
If it’s the Communist Nonsense Network, it’s bullshit.
End of.
That was a year ago!
More fake phony "news".
Oh goody, another scandal by un-named sources. It never ends.
“according to people familiar with the matter.”
They are making it up. It would be funny if it wasn’t so serious.
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