Trump officials demand probe after Situation Room audio leak

Senior officials in the Trump administration are concerned that highly sensitive conversations from inside the White House Situation Room may have been secretly recorded and provided to journalists, prompting calls for a full investigation. The alarm follows a report detailing fears that New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan obtained audio recordings of classified meetings for their forthcoming book, "Regime Change," which is scheduled for release on June 23.

According to the report, administration officials became concerned after seeing pre-publication excerpts containing verbatim dialogue from meetings regarding the war in Iran and the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case files. In one cited exchange, CIA Director John Ratcliffe reportedly described regime-change scenarios for Iran presented by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as "farcical," to which Secretary of State Marco Rubio responded, "In other words, it's bull." Officials have not disputed the accuracy of the quoted conversations.

An administration source expressed the core anxiety, stating they were afraid their most sensitive conversations were being recorded and that they had no idea...