Analysis: How the Trump White House is Abusing the Record-Keeping System
of meetings with Putin, including in 2017 when he reportedly took an interpreter’s notes and instructed the interpreter not to share a readout with other administration officials. That same reporting indicated there is no detailed record of five of Trump’s encounters with Putin over the past two years.Presidents don’t get to pick and choose whether they accurately document their conversations for the record. Therequires that they do so.
The draft readout should then be sent to the national security adviser’s office for review. The national security adiviser historically has been either physically present or on the line for presidential calls so he or she may also have some edits to the draft readout. If former national security adviser John Bolton was not included in Trump’s calls, that would be a major break with past practice.
Attorney General William Barr was specifically named to follow up during Trump’s call with Zelensky. Trumpthe Ukrainian president that Barr and Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani would call Zelensky. The MEMCON of the Zelensky call, which didn’t deal with sensitive intelligence information, was classified as “secret,” according to the header at the top of the now declassified document. That level is well below codeword. And yet the readout was inappropriately sent to the codeword system. The White House is claiming its actions were motivated by a desire to limit leaks, but it’s also possible it wanted to hide information that could be damaging to the president.
But, a readout of the meeting—we don’t know if it was a formal written readout or a verbal one—was reportedly limited to an "unusually" small group of people, which could indicate a failure to get the readout to those who needed it to do their jobs.
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