Fears of a security breach in the White House after details of secret meetings were published policy

Axios revealed that senior White House officials believe that New York Times journalists, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, may have obtained audio recordings of meetings held in the White House Situation Room, as part of the material on which they based their upcoming book, “Regime Change… Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.”

According to the report, the clips published by the New York Times a few days ago in preparation for the book’s release on June 23 raised concerns within the American administration, after they included a verbatim transmission of dialogues that took place during highly secret meetings that dealt with the war on Iran and the scandal of the businessman convicted of sex crimes, Jeffrey Epstein.

Axios quoted a source in the US administration as saying that there are concerns that some of the most sensitive discussions may have been recorded, adding that officials do not know specifically which meetings may have been subjected to this.

Special sensitivity

The website commented on these concerns by saying that the matter is particularly sensitive because the use of independent recording devices inside the operating room is completely prohibited, given that it is one of the most fortified security sites in the world.

The report indicated that White House officials did not deny the authenticity of the dialogues quoted in the book, including a statement attributed to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in which he questioned the feasibility of regime change scenarios in Iran proposed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Axios added that President Trump feels very angry at what the report described as a detailed and accurate account of what took place in those closed meetings.

The Axios report pointed out that the existence of audio recordings of the aforementioned meetings is not certain, indicating that the journalists may have relied on testimonies and interviews with people who attended the meetings, a methodology famous for by American journalist Bob Woodward in his political books that included reconstructed dialogues based on the accounts of the participants in the events.

The authors of the upcoming book also indicated that they based their preparation of the book on an extensive investigation that included conducting more than a thousand press interviews.