05 August, 2017
Former Prosecutors have said that whoever was responsible for leaking the transcripts of President Trump's phone calls with foreign leaders to the press has likely committed a crime, Fox News reports. "On this matter, I want there to be bipartisan outrage because we need people who understand this imperils national security". Meanwhile, a White House adviser raised the possibility of lie detector tests for the small number of people in the West Wing and elsewhere with access to transcripts of President Donald Trump's phone calls.
"It is vital that the president can speak in confidence and even more important that foreign managers can respond in confidence", he says, adding that no manager will dare to express themselves frankly if he fears returning to his about in the press. The White House press office and briefing room are also located there, as are the warrens of carrels and narrow booths that serve as work space for journalists who cover the president.
And while the President has lamented information leaks coming from his West Wing, there are also actual leaks there. Such leaks have no precedent, and the White House is right to find them alarming.
Miller said he does not know what would have happened if a president in the past had treated an ally or a leader of a close nation in the way Trump did the president of of Mexico or prime minister of Australia, but if they had, "perhaps we would have seen transcripts like that in those cases". "But we must draw the line somewhere", Price was quoted as saying.
"I have this message for our friends in the intelligence community: The Justice Department is open for business", Sessions said. "He wouldn't have sounded so dumb, but it's still absurd", said Tommy Vietor, another former spokesman of the National Security Council under the Obama Administration. And so there are these three impulses that have led to an astonishing level of leaks - the kind that Presidents George W. Bush and President Obama really sought to ensure didn't happen.
"Leaking the transcript of a presidential call to a foreign leader is unprecedented, shocking, and unsafe". That removes a major foreign policy tool from the president's arsenal.
Frum said that the leak will reverberate around the world. The presser was however scheduled before The Washington Post released the transcripts of the presidential conversation. "Whether that is or Judicial (committees) looking into it, somebody ought to", Warner told The Daily Beast in an interview.
