president trump asked to have joe biden and his son hunter investigated, but white sox officials were allegedly so alarmed they quickly looked to lock down records of the call. white sox officials understood the gravity of what happened in the call. they moved the call to an electronic system typically yaused to store classified information. this is not the first time under this administration that a presidential transcript was placed in this code word level system for the purpose of protecting sensitive information. the complaint also alleged that trump told mike pence to cancel a trip to attend the ukrainian
security council lawyers actually did it allegedly. we haven t confirmed that. but it could really be anyone fairly senior on the national security council who determines that either they want to put this secret document into this code word level system or they want to actually raise its classification level and put it in that system as some kind of code word top secret document. now, of course, experts say that that would prevent a whole host of people from effectively doing their jobs. it could compromise national security and our foreign policy because the people who rely on these readouts to conduct negotiations with foreign leader, for example, will not be able to see it because they don t have that kind of clearance. these are extremely sensitive this is an extremely sensitive system that most people in the white house don t have access to. it also kind of raises questions about whether this is actually the reason why the inspector general of the intelligence community felt tha
a white house official told the whistleblower that that is an abuse of the secure system since, quote, the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national security perspective. multiple white house officials also told the whistleblower that this was, quote, not the first time the trump white house placed a transcript of one of president trump s calls, quote, into this code word level system solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive rather than national security sensitive information. there could be much, much more. there is much, much more. so a couple things. first of all, we re talking about a whistleblower. congressman, look ago. complaint it s clear that this is not just one person, it s actually a group of people that work in the intelligence community, that work at the white house, that are very concerned that the president
multiple white house officials also told the whistleblower that this was quote not the first time the trump white house placed a transcript of one of president trump s calls quote into this code word level system, solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive rather than national security sensitive information. the acting director of national intelligence joe maguire appeared before the house intel committee moments after the whistleblower complaint was released and he was asked about those coverup allegations. so would you also want to know though, considering that you are the director of national intelligence, and transcripts are being moved into a secret intelligence system, whether other transcripts perhaps, maybe the president s phone calls with vladimir putin, with mbs of saudi arabia or erdogan of turkey or kim jong-un, would you want to know if those were also being improperly moved because the president is trying to cover up something? congressman, how the w
with direct knowledge of that call told the whistleblower this. after an initial exchange of pleasantries the president used the remainder of the call to advance his personal interests. the complaint says that white house officials were so deeply disturbed by what had transpired on the phone call, because they believe, quote, they had witnessed the president abuse his office for personal gain. so white house officials and lawyers then intervened to quote lock down the official transcript by removing it from the computer system typically used to store such records and the transcript was loaded into a separate electronic system managed by the national security council normally used for information that is of court especially sensitive nature and reserved for code word level intelligence information. such as covert action. a white house official told the whistleblower that is an abuse of the secure system, since quote the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national