Thread by @TheRynheart

‘House Intelligence Committee Releases Whistleblower Complaint’

(Declassified copy)

lawfareblog.com/house-intellig…

‘There was already a “discussion ongoing” with White House lawyers about how to treat the call because of the likelihood, in the officials’ retelling, that they had witnessed the President abuse his office for personal gain’

‘White House officials told me that they were “directed” by White House lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system’

‘Officials had intervened to “lock down” all records of the phone call, especially the word-for-word transcript’

The original must be damning.

‘this was "not the first time" under this Administration that a Presidential transcript was placed into this codeword-level system solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive-rather than national security sensitive-information.’

So there is more?