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BOOM! #WhistleblowerComplaint - “not the first time”
“In the days following the phone call..senior White House officials had intervened to ‘lock down’ all records of the phone call, especially the official word-for-word transcript of the call that was produced- as is customary..
“In the days following the phone call..senior White House officials had intervened to ‘lock down’ all records of the phone call, especially the official word-for-word transcript of the call that was produced- as is customary..
..by the White House Situation Room...White House officials...were ‘directed’ by White House lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored. Instead, the transcript was loaded into a separate..
..system to store..classified information of an especially... sensitive nature. One White House official described this act as an abuse of this..system because...the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national security perspective...
..According to White House officials I spoke with, 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 information."
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
nytimes.com/interactive/20…
I HATE this phrase, but I must hold my nose & say it; "Lordy. There are tapes"... "word-for-word" of every phone conversation Trump made to foreign leaders.
ONE I want: He spoke with King Salman on Sat AM, 3 days before Khashoggi's murder. About when assassins flew to Turkey.
ONE I want: He spoke with King Salman on Sat AM, 3 days before Khashoggi's murder. About when assassins flew to Turkey.
