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Michael Goodwin: Leaked and classified Situation Room talks demands a criminal probe from ‘furious’ Trump

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What took them so long?

Reports are surfacing that White House aides are suddenly alarmed over the likelihood that top secret conversations on national security were taped and leaked to the New York Times.

Axios quotes an administration source as saying that, “We’re afraid some of our most sensitive conversations were being recorded, and we have no idea which ones.”

The outlet also writes that, “We hear President Trump is furious about the blow-by-blow accounts.”

The president has every right to be furious, but he shouldn’t stop there.

Situation Room meetings are classified, and the mere possibility that details of conversations, including those about the goals and strategy of the Iran war, were leaked demands a criminal probe.

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Yet so far, there’s not been a peep from the Department of Justice, despite that Pam Bondi, then the attorney general, and Kash Patel, the head of the FBI, were on speakerphone for one of the secret meetings, according to New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.

The minimal and belated White House anger appears to be driven by the fact that their book is slated for publication next week.

Titled “Regime Change,” it promises to go “Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.”

Published by Simon & Schuster, it is advertised on the same Amazon page as three other anti-Trump screeds.

One of which is titled “Liar’s Kingdom,” a second that likens the president to a mafia leader and another asserting that Trump is following “in the footsteps of Adolf Hitler.”

What, you expected fair and balanced........

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