W.H. further limits officials on Trump's foreign leader calls

[dukkha]

President Donald Trump's senior aides have further restricted the number of administration officials allowed to listen to the President's phone calls with foreign leaders since his July 25 call with Ukraine's President was revealed and became the centerpiece of the impeachment inquiry, according to multiple White House sources.
Transcripts of Trump's calls with world leaders are also disseminated to a far smaller group of people inside the White House, those administration sources say, continuing an effort to limit the number of people with insight and information about the conversations.

"Nobody is allowed on the calls," a White House official said, describing the new effort to limit those with access to the calls to only the President's senior-most aides, barring some senior and mid-level career staff from listening in. "The barn door officially closed after the horse escaped."

Now, when the President speaks on the phone with world leaders, he's joined on the call by just a handful of others appointed by Trump to the highest level of the administration, multiple White House officials say.
The list is signed off on by national security adviser Robert O'Brien, who will often join the call himself along with a rotating roster of officials including his deputy Matt Pottinger, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and his deputy Rob Blair.

Gone from the calls are some of the career staffers and detailees whose roles included taking notes and providing edits to the eventual transcript of the conversations meant to clarify what was said.
Limiting access to the President's phone calls is designed to stop leaks
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/13/polit...ine/index.html

[dukkha]

about damn time.
between the CONSTANT leaks and the NSC Obama holdover Creeps, Trump had no security on his calls

[Cinnabar]

President Donald Trump's senior aides have further restricted the number of administration officials allowed to listen to the President's phone calls with foreign leaders since his July 25 call with Ukraine's President was revealed and became the centerpiece of the impeachment inquiry, according to multiple White House sources.
Transcripts of Trump's calls with world leaders are also disseminated to a far smaller group of people inside the White House, those administration sources say, continuing an effort to limit the number of people with insight and information about the conversations.

"Nobody is allowed on the calls," a White House official said, describing the new effort to limit those with access to the calls to only the President's senior-most aides, barring some senior and mid-level career staff from listening in. "The barn door officially closed after the horse escaped."

Now, when the President speaks on the phone with world leaders, he's joined on the call by just a handful of others appointed by Trump to the highest level of the administration, multiple White House officials say.
The list is signed off on by national security adviser Robert O'Brien, who will often join the call himself along with a rotating roster of officials including his deputy Matt Pottinger, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and his deputy Rob Blair.

Gone from the calls are some of the career staffers and detailees whose roles included taking notes and providing edits to the eventual transcript of the conversations meant to clarify what was said.
Limiting access to the President's phone calls is designed to stop leaks
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/13/polit...ine/index.html

Get lost Russkie propaganda asset and I'll tell you what I tell all Russkie assets.

You and yours deserve no better than to live under the rule of a dictatorship in an oligarchy where you must call your authoritarian leader m'lord. You and yours deserve to live in a place where your dictator can shoot and kill you and yours on Fifth Avenue after grabbing the females in your family by the pussy and not be held accountable. Yes, you and yours deserve that because you are a dumbed-down Russian/Putin propaganda pusher. BUT my family and I demand and deserve way better than that birther bull-shit and are intelligent and worthy enough to live in a democratic society!

Your thrills over more secrecy in the government that belongs to the people is the dead giveaway as to who and what you actually are. Get lost comrade as you are too stupid to be anywhere near anything that even resembles liberty and democracy.

[archives]

President Donald Trump's senior aides have further restricted the number of administration officials allowed to listen to the President's phone calls with foreign leaders since his July 25 call with Ukraine's President was revealed and became the centerpiece of the impeachment inquiry, according to multiple White House sources.
Transcripts of Trump's calls with world leaders are also disseminated to a far smaller group of people inside the White House, those administration sources say, continuing an effort to limit the number of people with insight and information about the conversations.

"Nobody is allowed on the calls," a White House official said, describing the new effort to limit those with access to the calls to only the President's senior-most aides, barring some senior and mid-level career staff from listening in. "The barn door officially closed after the horse escaped."

Now, when the President speaks on the phone with world leaders, he's joined on the call by just a handful of others appointed by Trump to the highest level of the administration, multiple White House officials say.
The list is signed off on by national security adviser Robert O'Brien, who will often join the call himself along with a rotating roster of officials including his deputy Matt Pottinger, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and his deputy Rob Blair.

Gone from the calls are some of the career staffers and detailees whose roles included taking notes and providing edits to the eventual transcript of the conversations meant to clarify what was said.
Limiting access to the President's phone calls is designed to stop leaks
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/13/polit...ine/index.html

You sure this isn't being done so Trump can swing more "drug deals" with his autocrat buddies for help in his reelection? Turkey probably still owes him an IOU for his suddenly pullout from Syria, Saudi Arabia for apologizing for them, and who knows what a sweet deal he could get with China over trade and Little Rocket Man for more concessions.

But it is puzzling why he would go to that extent, everyone saw Russia get away with it with no consequences, it doesn't bother Trump's lemmings, the entire GOP don't care, and an entire news network would defend Trump if caught

[Adolf_Twitler]

I suppose, someone telling the press about Donald Trump literally asking Putin over the phone about how he should strategize the US Foreign Policy with North Korea this week, was so embarrassing to him, for the public to find out about, that he is now willing to hide his telephone conversations with Putin and other thug leaders around the world.

Not only does this prove that Donald Trump is actually carrying out orders from Putin, and shaping Trump's Foreign Policies to please Putin- THIS IS JUST ANOTHER IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE IN ITSELF.

How much longer are the people going to put up with Donald Trump's illegal, reckless, and traitorous behavior?

[domer76]

about damn time.
between the CONSTANT leaks and the NSC Obama holdover Creeps, Trump had no security on his calls

So much for his transparency claim.

[Rune]

Get lost Russkie propaganda asset and I'll tell you what I tell all Russkie assets.

You and yours deserve no better than to live under the rule of a dictatorship in an oligarchy where you must call your authoritarian leader m'lord. You and yours deserve to live in a place where your dictator can shoot and kill you and yours on Fifth Avenue after grabbing the females in your family by the pussy and not be held accountable. Yes, you and yours deserve that because you are a dumbed-down Russian/Putin propaganda pusher. BUT my family and I demand and deserve way better than that birther bull-shit and are intelligent and worthy enough to live in a democratic society!

Your thrills over more secrecy in the government that belongs to the people is the dead giveaway as to who and what you actually are. Get lost comrade as you are too stupid to be anywhere near anything that even resembles liberty and democracy.

Best post of the year award.

[Sailor]

Get lost Russkie propaganda asset and I'll tell you what I tell all Russkie assets.

You and yours deserve no better than to live under the rule of a dictatorship in an oligarchy where you must call your authoritarian leader m'lord. You and yours deserve to live in a place where your dictator can shoot and kill you and yours on Fifth Avenue after grabbing the females in your family by the pussy and not be held accountable. Yes, you and yours deserve that because you are a dumbed-down Russian/Putin propaganda pusher. BUT my family and I demand and deserve way better than that birther bull-shit and are intelligent and worthy enough to live in a democratic society!

Your thrills over more secrecy in the government that belongs to the people is the dead giveaway as to who and what you actually are. Get lost comrade as you are too stupid to be anywhere near anything that even resembles liberty and democracy.

Try a part time job along with your welfare. You just might at least to be able to afford some good drugs.