Secret Service Says It Has No Audio Recordings, Transcripts From Trump WH

[DonViejo]

By ESME CRIBB Published JUNE 12, 2017 3:14 PM

The Secret Service on Monday said it has no copies or transcripts of audio recordings made within the White House during President Donald Trump’s term so far, though Trump appeared to suggest a recording system may exist inside the Oval Office.

“It appears, from a review of Secret Service’s main indices, that there are no records pertaining to your request that are referenced in these indices,” the Secret Service wrote to the Wall Street Journal in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.

The Wall Street Journal in May filed a request for “recordings or transcripts of any recordings” made after Trump’s inauguration. As the Wall Street Journal noted, while the Secret Service installed recording systems for former presidents John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, such recordings could also have been created or maintained by other means.

The National Archives and Records Administration, which governs materials subject to the Presidential Records Act (as such recordings would likely be), told the Wall Street Journal that contemporary presidential records are not subject to FOIA requests while the incumbent is in office.

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[avebury]

1. That does not guarantee that Trump didn't

have some type of recording system in place.

[gopiscrap]

2. Or they have been destroyed

[Doreen]

4. That is what is going through my mind.

[leftstreet]

3. Trump has some pretty sophisticated listening devices