Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit [View all]

Source: npr




August 16, 20256:00 AM ET Papers with U.S. State Department markings, found Friday morning in the business center of an Alaskan hotel,.......................

At around 9 a.m. on Friday, three guests at Hotel Captain Cook, a four-star hotel located 20 minutes from the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage where leaders from the U.S. and Russia convened, found the documents left behind in one of the hotel's public printers. NPR reviewed photos of the documents taken by one of the guests, who NPR agreed not to identify because the guest said they feared retaliation.
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During the summit Friday, lunch was apparently cancelled. But .................

Jon Michaels, a professor of law at UCLA who lectures about national security, said that the documents found in the printer of the Alaskan hotel reveal a lapse in professional judgement in preparation for a high-stakes meeting.

"It strikes me as further evidence of the sloppiness and the incompetence of the administration," said Michaels. "You just don't leave things in printers. It's that simple."...................






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