First on CNN: White House says lawyers directed moving Ukraine transcript to highly secure system
Source: CNN
The White House is acknowledging for the first time that officials did direct the Ukraine call transcript be filed in a separate classified system.
In a statement provided to CNN, a senior White House official says it was under the direction of National Security Council attorneys: "NSC lawyers directed that the classified document be handled appropriately."
The admission lends further credibility to the whistleblower complaint description of how the transcript with the Ukrainian president, among others, were kept out of wider circulation by using a system for highly sensitive documents.
But the statement does not explain whether anyone else in the White House was part of the decision to put the the Ukraine transcript in the more restrictive system.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/27/politics/donald-trump-ukraine-transcript-white-house/index.html
No fair jumping to conclusions...
jayfish
(10,039 posts)How many people can fit under hat bus?
lark
(23,091 posts)They are so fucking stupid!!!
FakeNoose
(32,628 posts)Thanks to Maguire and Barr, the White House found out about it 2 months ago. That was long before Adam Schiff or Nancy Pelosi got wind of it.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)Noted that other items, likely similar in nature, had been placed on the same system.
Someone in the room or with access to tapes/transcripts must have recognized the risk and sought an opinion. Likely told that if it saw the light of day, they were all going to jail.
Maybe now they are taking them to the lawyers to review and letting them make the call on which ones pose a risk and must be hidden.
Harker
(14,012 posts)and they're it.
Not terribly deep after all.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)What a shitshow.
getagrip_already
(14,708 posts)To classify or declassify at will, but his lawyers don't. It would have had to come from a direct order since no reasonable person would consider it ts/sci.. But in any case, courts can order the release.
Of course, the cabal could simply destroy it. Potus can pardon them for that.
And so the cycle of depravity continues until nature or the senate makes a move. The cowards may eventually calculate they have to leave the cabal to survive politically, but as in all crime families, death is usually your only retirement plan.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)The lawyers know where the bodies are buried...or, where the docs are stored on the secret server.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)and friends, just delivered up all these lawyers on a silver platter to the prosecution!!!
Its fuckin UNBELIEVABLE and entirely delightful!!
WOW
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of snakes.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)RAB910
(3,497 posts)pandr32
(11,578 posts)jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)Bradical79
(4,490 posts)is the term I keep seeing thrown around. He'd have been removed year one if Conservatives had any kind of integrity and ethical standards.
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)DBoon
(22,354 posts)History DOES repeat as farce
KPN
(15,642 posts)KPN
(15,642 posts)ritapria
(1,812 posts)KPN
(15,642 posts)DNI lawyers under the bus. Who knows, maybe next they'll be claiming they were "deep state" setting a fraudulent trap to get the pResident.
Seems to me there may be an attorney or two thinking about how to save their license to practice and maybe stay out of jail.
riversedge
(70,186 posts)onetexan
(13,036 posts)there's always a digital trail so if there's any changes made since this whistleblower story came out they should be able to trace it.
NBachers
(17,099 posts)bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)bluestarone
(16,906 posts)I really wish i could have complete faith in this!
FakeNoose
(32,628 posts)Thanks to Maguire and Barr, it was immediately after the report was filed, about 2 months ago.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)However, conspiracy lurks, compounded by the more distant but fearsome ghost of treason.
It will be interesting to see how this works out over time.
Vinca
(50,261 posts)They might want to keep criminal activity top secret, but that's not what the system is meant for. By the way . . . don't they get the irony of Don keeping his stuff on a separate server?
Jersey Devil
(9,874 posts)I would guess that the NSC had to sign off on where to put the phone record since a discussion with a foreigh leader was within their area, but who ordered them to do it?