The Trump White House is grappling with fears that one of its most secure spaces, the Situation Room, may have been secretly recorded, with the contents passed to journalists. Senior aides are scrambling to understand how verbatim accounts of sensitive national security discussions ended up in print and whether covert devices were ever planted in the room.
Top officials now believe New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan obtained audio recordings of Situation Room meetings for their forthcoming book, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump. Independent recording devices in the Situation Room are strictly forbidden, meaning such a leak would constitute a serious breach of one of the most secure settings on Earth. Alarm was triggered by book excerpts the Times posted ahead of publication, which included verbatim accounts of several Situation Room meetings, including the administration's internal crisis management over the Epstein files.
