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Steve Linick, the State Department's inspector general, has now left Capitol Hill after requesting an urgent briefing with senior congressional staff members. He declined to comment on the meeting as he left the building.
From CNN's Greg Wallace The Trump Administration agreed today in a court filing to preserve for now records of President Trump’s communications with foreign leaders, as requested by groups suing him and the White House, alleging such records have not been preserved as required by federal law.
The commitment applies to “all records reflecting Defendants' meetings, phone calls, and other communications with foreign leaders” as well as records of White House preservation and communication policies. It specifically includes “all records of efforts by White House or other executive branch officials to return, claw back, ‘lock down,’ or recall White House records reflecting Defendants' meetings, phone calls, and other communications with foreign leaders were distributed to or otherwise shared with agency officials.”: The lawsuit was filed in May, long before the Ukraine scandal, by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, known as CREW, the National Security Archive at George Washington University, and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations over concerns the White House was not complying with the Presidential Records Act. But Tuesday a request for a temporary restraining order was filed after the whistleblower complaint raised allegations of how the White House handles records of Trump’s conversations with foreign leaders.
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