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NEW: Pompeo is being sued for failing to preserve records of Trump and Putin's face-to-face meetings, including allowing Trump to seize the interpreter's notes at the G20 in Hamburg
The two leaders have met 5 times, and there is no detailed U.S. record time.com/5609279/pompeo…
The two leaders have met 5 times, and there is no detailed U.S. record time.com/5609279/pompeo…
In the new lawsuit, @weareoversight and @DemocracyFwd argue Trump "has taken unusual, and in some cases extreme, measures to conceal the details of these meetings, not only from the public at large, but also from key members of his administration"
Experts say Trump’s efforts to conceal what's said to a key foreign leader behind closed doors is unprecedented & will pose serious problems to the next administration, which will be left to guess what Trump communicated to Russia & what promises were made time.com/5609279/pompeo… 
The lawsuit cites @gregpmiller's reporting on how Trump went to "extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with Putin... taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter &instructing the linguist not to discuss what had transpired" washingtonpost.com/world/national…
This comes a week before the G20 summit in Japan. There's no official meeting planned, but the Kremlin said the two leaders could meet informally. US records laws offer little deterrence/consequences to stop Trump from keeping those meetings secret too time.com/5609279/pompeo…
