One ex-NSC official told Politico that Trump’s other calls to heads of state “were certainly the type of thing that you would not want in public because they were just really embarrassing”
Photo: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images Since Trump first ventured into politics in 2015, his team has been inundated with leaks, frustrating the president to no end — except of course, when they benefit him. To plug his leaky administration and campaign, Trump has gone to great lengths, purging pollsters, letting his staffers know he considers people who talk to the press “traitors and cowards,” and requiring million-dollar donors to put their phones in a lockbox before meeting with him.
The changes included a new log of who accessed specific documents in the [National Security Council’s] system —known as NICE or “NSC Intelligence Collaboration Environment”—and was designed in part to prevent leaks of records of the president’s phone calls with foreign leaders and to find out the suspected leaker if transcripts did get disclosed, one of the former officials said.
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