First on CNN: White House says lawyers directed moving Ukraine transcript to highly secure system

[brooklynite]

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

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No fair jumping to conclusions...

[jayfish]

1. Jeez...

How many people can fit under hat bus?

[lark]

2. How did the lawyers know unless donnie dotard told them to do this?

They are so fucking stupid!!!

[FakeNoose]

26. They got the Whistleblower's Report immediately after it was filed

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]

31. Most are skipping over the allegation that this was not the first time

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]

3. So there really is a 'deep state'...

and they're it.

Not terribly deep after all.

[lagomorph777]

4. So... which part of the whistleblower complaint is inaccurate...?

What a shitshow.

[getagrip_already]

5. the potus has the power....

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]

6. Oooh. Throwing their lawyers under the bus. Not a smart move.

The lawyers know where the bodies are buried...or, where the docs are stored on the secret server.

[fleur-de-lisa]

7. Trump is the stupidest motherfucker on the planet. Thank Dog!

[SunSeeker]

8. Sure didn't take long for the rats to turn on each other!

[fleur-de-lisa]

9. And I am enjoying every minute of it.

[SunSeeker]

10. +1

[Leghorn21]

22. They sure af are, Sun, and I read all this earlier but just now realized, the WH, ie, LOSER45

and friends, just delivered up all these lawyers on a silver platter to the prosecution!!!

It’s fuckin UNBELIEVABLE and entirely delightful!!

WOW

[SunSeeker]

24. Yup. And all these lawyers are now opened up to being disbarred.

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of snakes.

[Leghorn21]

27. I can't smile any bigger than I am right now, FOR REAL!! --- It's a WRAP, trumpers!!!

[RAB910]

11. Now it's no longer an alleged cover up

[pandr32]

12. Good point

[jcgoldie]

13. Nor is it a very competent one

[Bradical79]

14. Stupid Watergate

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]

15. That one belongs to John Oliver

[DBoon]

28. Stupid Watergate with a Stupid Fat Nixon

History DOES repeat as farce

[KPN]

19. The most transparent pResident ever!

[KPN]

16. "No fair jumping to conclusions..." Lol.

[ritapria]

17. I heard it first last night on DU

[KPN]

18. Surprise, surprise! tRump, Pompeo, Mnuchin and Mulvaney throwing them under the

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]

20. Lets just get this Impeachment done!!

[onetexan]

21. just heard on MSNBC the code level server has now been locked down to prevent removal of documents

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]

23. I'm relieved to read that- I've been worried that they'd wipe it clean. Thanks for posting.

[bigbrother05]

29. Schiff ordered all records preserved

[bluestarone]

34. That's great BUT

I really wish i could have complete faith in this!

[FakeNoose]

25. Yep - probably the same day they saw the Whistleblower's Report

Thanks to Maguire and Barr, it was immediately after the report was filed, about 2 months ago.

[empedocles]

30. Future issue. Attorney's 'normally' have more leeway in defending a client 'with zeal'.

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]

32. Then lawyers better direct the movement of them out of the super secure system.

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]

33. They are trying to get off the hook by saying that it was NSC lawyers

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?