2026-07-15T17:40:22.407Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/15/politics/susie-wiles-kash-patel-leak
据了解此事的消息人士向CNN透露，总统唐纳德·特朗普最亲近的助手、白宫办公厅主任苏西·威尔斯，以及联邦调查局局长卡什·帕特尔上周亲自牵头在白宫开展了一项大规模调查，旨在查明政府内部是谁泄露了有关卡塔尔赠送的、拟用作空军一号的飞机存在安全缺陷的信息——部分官员被要求在白宫园区内将手机交给调查人员。
消息人士称，特朗普对有关这架新飞机的披露感到愤怒，其政府迅速启动了一项激烈的泄密调查，引发了政府内部的动荡。一名消息人士告诉CNN，随着调查展开，至少有一个联邦机构向员工发送邮件警告称，如果外部机构联系他们索要信息或设备，他们需要立即联系本机构的律师。
消息人士透露，原本准备前往芝加哥的帕特尔于周五被紧急调回白宫，亲自参与调查的统筹工作。调查于次日一早被曝光，《纽约时报》报道称司法部已向四名报道过这架新飞机安全隐患的记者发出传票。
帕特尔在威尔斯办公室隔壁的办公区域待了约七个小时，两人在西翼设立了被一名消息人士称为“作战室”的指挥点。
除了要求上交手机，调查人员还向曾随特朗普出行或参与相关行程的官员调取信息，涉及多个机构的官员。一名消息人士表示，并非所有被要求上交设备的官员都配合了这一要求。
此举反映出白宫对执法调查施加管控的程度——这严重破坏了司法部历来的独立性，尽管在特朗普政府时期这种情况已变得较为常见。CNN此前曾报道，特朗普也曾与帕特尔就泄密调查通电话。
CNN已联系白宫和FBI征求置评。
记者和新闻自由倡导者批评司法部向《纽约时报》记者发出传票的行为是对第一修正案的冒犯，《纽约时报》表示计划在法庭上对传票提出抗辩。
这架价值4亿美元的卡塔尔捐赠新客机引发的担忧在上周占据了华盛顿的舆论焦点，当时特朗普在离开土耳其参加北约峰会前夕突然宣布，将这架新飞机提前送往英国的米尔登霍尔空军基地。特朗普在社交媒体帖子中称，更换飞机只是为了让驻扎在该基地的美国军人“有机会参观这架飞机”。他此前曾大肆宣传这架按照他的喜好进行改装和重新涂装的飞机。
“所有人都非常兴奋，我们认为他们应该成为第一批参观者，”他写道。
特朗普乘坐一架旧飞机启程，随后在英国一处美国安全空军基地换乘了新飞机。他淡化了更换飞机是出于安全考虑的说法，但消息人士此前告诉CNN和其他媒体，事实确实如此。
“不存在安全问题，只是我们把飞机提前送过去了，情况都是一样的。我们提前送过去，就是为了让他们看看，”特朗普说道。
消息人士告诉CNN，特朗普前往土耳其参加峰会后，安全评估情况发生了变化，威尔斯向特朗普汇报称，他需要乘坐旧专机离开该国。消息人士称，这架卡塔尔赠送的飞机虽已快速加装了防御能力，但仍不如旧版专机安全——旧版专机是专为总统海外出行安保需求打造的。
一名官员此前告诉CNN，卡塔尔赠送的这架747客机在军方和特勤局看来基本是“仓促投入使用”的。相比之下，特朗普在第一任期内重新谈判协议采购的两架新喷气式飞机则面临严重延误，预计至少要到2028年才能交付。部分原因是需要加装大量保密通信和防御对抗系统，军方提出了全面的设计要求，还需要时间培训飞行员操作这种特殊机型。
新旧飞机之间的安全差异具体情况尚未完全明晰。研究过这架飞机照片的航空观察人士告诉CNN，新飞机似乎缺少与定向红外导弹防御系统相关的尾锥外部改装部件。但缺少可见特征并不能确定其具体安装了哪些系统。
CNN的基特·马赫为本报道撰稿。
Exclusive: Officials asked to turn over phones at the White House as Wiles, Patel lead intensifying leak probe
2026-07-15T17:40:22.407Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/15/politics/susie-wiles-kash-patel-leak
Chief of staff Susie Wiles, President Donald Trump’s closest aide, and FBI Director Kash Patel helped personally orchestrate a sprawling investigation last week at the White House aimed at determining who in the government leaked information about the security deficiencies of a Qatari-gifted airplane meant to be used as Air Force One – with some officials being asked to turn over their phones to investigators on White House grounds, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
Trump had fumed over disclosures about the new plane, sources said, and his government quickly stood up an intense leak probe that roiled the government. As the investigation unfolded, at least one federal agency emailed employees warning that if they were contacted by outside agencies requesting information and devices, they needed to immediately contact their own agency’s attorneys, one source told CNN.
The sources said Patel — who had been preparing to travel to Chicago — was diverted to the White House on Friday to take a hands-on role in running the probe, which became public early the next morning when the New York Times reported that the Justice Department had issued subpoenas to four of its journalists who reported on security concerns surrounding the new plane.
Patel posted up in an office next to Wiles’ for roughly seven hours, as the two established what one source referred to as a “war room” in the West Wing.
In addition to asking for cell phones, investigators sought information from those who were traveling with Trump or had a role in the trip, including officials across various agencies. Not all officials who were asked to turn over their devices did so, one of the sources told CNN.
The effort reflects the extent to which the White House was willing to exert control over a law enforcement investigation — a significant breach of the Justice Department’s historic independence, though one that has become somewhat common in Trump’s administration. CNN has previously reported that Trump also talked with Patel on the phone about the leak investigation.
CNN has reached out to the White House and FBI for comment.
Journalists and free press advocates have criticized the Justice Department’s move to subpoena the New York Times journalists as an affront to the First Amendment, and the Times has said it plans to fight them in court.
The concerns about the new, $400 million Qatari-gifted jet came to dominate the conversation in Washington last week when Trump abruptly announced he was sending the new plane ahead to England’s Mildenhall Air Force Base just before he departed a NATO summit in Turkey. Trump said in a social media post that the change in planes was simply to give US service members stationed at the base “a chance to tour the Aircraft.” He had previously touted the plane, which was remade and repainted to his tastes.
“Everybody is so excited, and we thought that they should be the first,” he wrote.
Trump departed on an older plane, then switched back at a secure US airbase in the UK. He downplayed the idea that security was the reason for the switch, though sources have told CNN and other outlets that it was.
“There wasn’t a security concern, except we sent it a little early, same line going back. We sent it a little bit early, so that we could let them see,” Trump said.
Sources told CNN that after Trump traveled to Turkey for the summit, the security assessment changed, and Wiles briefed Trump that he would need to leave the country on an older vessel. The Qatari plane, sources said, had been quickly retrofitted with defense capabilities but was still not as secure as the older version, which had been built to protect presidents in overseas travel.
One official previously told CNN that the 747 gifted by Qatar was largely seen by the military and Secret Service as having been “rushed” into service. By contrast, the official noted two new jets acquired as part of a deal Trump renegotiated during his first term have faced serious delays and aren’t expected to be ready until at least 2028. That’s partially due to the host of classified communication and defensive countermeasures that must be affixed, comprehensive design requirements by the military and the time required to train pilots on the unique aircraft.
The exact nature of the security differences between the old and new planes is not fully clear. Aviation observers studying pictures of the aircraft told CNN the new plane appears to lack external modifications to the tail cone associated with a type of directional infrared missile defense system. However, the absence of visible features does not definitively establish which systems are or are not installed.
CNN’s Kit Maher contributed to this report.
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