If true, the allegations should spark an investigation into the potential mishandling of a classified system, intelligence experts say.
between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by moving it to a classified system that a very limited number of administration officials have access to and that is reserved for details about covert operations and such highly-sensitive information that it’s given a code word.
“The only reason to use classification to limit who sees a transcript is if the conversation is classified," said Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser in the Obama administration."We know from the transcript that the conversation wasn’t classified so the only reason to restrict access is to protect the president’s corruption.”
"According to White House officials I spoke with, this was 'not the first time' under this Administration that a Presidential transcript was placed into this codeword-level system solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive — rather than national security sensitive — information,” reads the whistleblower complaint.
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