movie, again, from the originally classified appendix to the whistle-blower s complaint. quote, according to multiple white house officials, the transcript of the president s call was placed into a computer system managed directly by the national security council s director for programs. this is a stand alone computer system reserved for code word level intelligence information such as covert action. according to information i received from white house officials, some officials voiced concerns internally that this would be an abuse of the system and was not consistent with the responsibilities of director for intelligence programs. this was not the first time under this administration that a presidential transcript was placed into this code word level system solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive rather than national security sensitive information. and so, question. if the whistleblower is right and white house lawyers directed that the evidence of this
the transcript of the president s call was placed into a computer system managed directly by the national security council s director for programs. this was reserved for code word level intelligence information such as covert action. according to information i received from white house officials, some officials voiced concerns internally that this would be an abuse of the system and was not consistent with the responsibilities of director for intelligence programs. this was not the first time under this administration that a presidential transcript was placed into this code word level system solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive rather than national security sensitive information. and so question. if the whistleblower is right and white house lawyers directed that the evidence of this behavior by the president should be hidden in a code word protected server that is
so when the institutions of government are under mined in this fashion this is the situation we find ourselves in. they re going to go back and look at this server that is supposed to be used for only very specific purposes. according to the whistle-blower complaint, white house officials told them that it was not the first time under this administration that a presidential transcript was placed into this code word level system, specifically for protecting sensitive rather than national security sensitive information. that is an entire hour of conversation, but if nancy pelosi wants to keep this focused. does it seem like in the natural course of events when you follow the evidence that it will turn into something bigger than this one single thing that we have in a nine-page complaint right now. it very well could, and there are plenty of process fouls
quote, under this administration that a presidential transcript was placed into the code word level system solely for the purpose of protecting. so, bob, let me ask you about the significance of that. that this was a process to protect him that had happened multiple times? that certainly seems to be the case that there were people in the white house who felt they had to essentially protect the president from himself. i m going to be a contrarian and suggest that in this case the issue was not the cover-up, but the crime itself. the cover-up seems to be a bunch of underlings who realize they have a president who is prone to get in trouble all the time. there s no indication, and i suspect it s not true, that the president himself was directing that these things be removed from the system. fair point. so i think it s relevant to show that there were a lot of people in the white house who recognized that what the president was doing here was very iffy, but fundamentally here the r
word transcript of the call that was produced as is customary by the white house situation room. this set of akds underscored to me that white house officials understood the gravity of what had transpired in the call. continues, the white house officials told me they were directed, directed again, a quote, by white house lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored for coordination, finalization and distribution to cabinet-level officials and the complaint then takes it even further saying instead, the transcript was loaded into a separate system used to store classified information of an especially sensitive nature. one white house official described this act as abuse because the call did not contain anything from a national security perspective. it was sensitive from a political perspective and it was sensitive in that the president