FOREIGN DIGNITARIES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/WHISTLEBLOWER: “The White House concealed some reconstructed transcripts of delicate calls between President Trump and foreign officials, including President Vladimir V. Putin and the Saudi royal family, in a highly classified computer system after embarrassing leaks of his conversations, according to current and former officials. The handling of Mr. Trump’s calls with world leaders has come under scrutiny after questions over whether a transcript of a July 25 call with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, 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 Mr. Trump, the details of which the administration did not want leaked. A whistle-blower complaint accuses officials of trying to ‘lock down’ access to information about the conversation with Mr. Zelensky by improperly storing the reconstructed transcript of the July 25 call in the highly classified system after the call took place.”
–Julian E. Barnes, Michael Crowley, Matthew Rosenberg and Mark Mazzetti, “White House Classified Computer System Is Used to Hold Transcripts of Sensitive Calls,” The New York Times online, September 27, 2019