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Department that essentially says the president is above the director, therefore the president is not subject to the jurisdiction of the director, therefore it doesnt meet the definition of urgent concern, therefore the Inspector General is done. The Inspector General cant investigate anymore. Thats the Inspector Generals reading of the Department Opinion, that he is no longer allowed to investigate this. Is that your reading as well . Chairman, not necessarily the president , but the allegation ...

Calls a hotline. and he is providing an important tip and expecting that the police who are receiving the tip are going to do the right thing. and instead you see that the acting director of national intelligence, he receives this information, and the first person that he goes to are the white house lawyers who are trying to cover up for the president these transcripts. and so you just see what were up against here. what was so concerning was the fact that there are other transcripts in this sys...

Records into a system that was not designed for that purpose in an effort to cover up, essentially, potential misconduct, that ought to be looked into, you would agree with that, wouldnt you? >> to the best of my knowledge, when this allegation came forward, this whistle-blower complaint on the 12th of august, i have no idea what the timeline was as far as whether or not the white house, the national security council, or anybody involved in that conversation, what they did with the transcripts, ...

Information of an especially sensitive nature. one white house official described this act as an abuse of the electronic system. i do not know whether similar measures were taken to restrict other records of the call such as contemporaneous handwritten notes taken by those who listened in. we should find out, shouldnt we? >> umm, chairman schiff, when i received the letter from michael atkinson on the 26th of august he concurrently sent a letter to the office of white house counsel, asking the w...

Officials that senior white house officials had intervened to lock down all records of the phone call especially the word for word official transcript of the call that is produced as is customer by the sit room. one white house official described this act as an abuse of the electronic system because the call didnt contain anything remotely sensitive from the national security perspective. >> this reminded me of the nutjob meeting that the president had with the russians in the oval office, that ...

The message this has sent to other whistle-blowers about whether this system really works. if the subject of a complaint can stop that complaint from getting to congress, then the most of the serious complaints may never get here. and i want to thank the whistle-blower for their courage. they didnt have to step forward, indeed we know there were several others that had knowledge of many of the same events. i would say to those several others that have knowledge of those events, i hope that they ...