“The issue is how such transcripts or notes ever got out to the public.”
I don’t think that anyone in the White House would be so stupid as to give it out. Too easy to find out who did it.
I agree it should be easy to trace. However, we don’t know who is on the distribution of the transcripts or notes. No doubt the intel community and the State Department would be on the list because of the foreign policy implications. And if there are actual recordings of the conversations, WHCA would be involved. The bottom line is that there could be a wider distribution than we know and some of the recipients could either be Obama appointee holdovers or partisan career bureaucrats.