Members of the Trump administration reportedly left potentially sensitive documents about the meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a hotel in Alaska.
According to NPR, three guests at Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage, Alaska, minutes away from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson where the summit was held, found the documents left behind in one of the hotel’s public printers around 9 a.m. on Friday.
The documents have official U.S. State Department markings and shared precise locations and meeting times of the summit and phone numbers of U.S. government employees.
The papers also had other potentially sensitive information including the specific names of the rooms inside the base in Anchorage where meetings between US and Russian officials would take place.
Jon Michaels, a professor of law at UCLA who lectures about national security, told NPR that government officials leaving the documents behind in a hotel room in preparation for the crucial summit was a security risk.
“It strikes me as further evidence of the sloppiness and the incompetence of the administration,” Michaels said. “You just don’t leave things in printers. It’s that simple.”
