(September 29, 2019 at 8:10 am)onlinebiker Wrote:(September 28, 2019 at 10:23 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Because it doesn't matter that he classified it, declassified it, or shoved it up his bum and round the corner. The classification of the transcript isn't the issue. The issue is that it was put into a server for which things like this are not intended (and I doubt very much that Trump had a hand in doing that).ROTFLMAO
If the transcript was classified, all well and good. Classify it til the cows come home. But when the transcript is hidden in a server intended and used for extremely sensitive national security issues (which, at the time, this wasn't), it becomes a cover up.
Boru
Seriously -- think about what you just said.
When something is assigned a security classification - it must be stored in a method that is appropriate to that classification.
If they classified it Secret and kept it with all the unclassified voice transcripts.-- THEN there would be a problem.
You're missing the point. It was classified and stored appropriately. It was then moved without being reclassified to a more secure server. We know it wasn't reclassified because Trump did not direct the move. It was moved, without his knowledge or direction, on the orders of White House lawyers.
The best that can be said is that the current administration is disturbingly sloppy when it comes to handling classified material. The worst that can be said is that WH staffers have orchestrated a cover-up which the president now knows about and has declined to repudiate.
Boru
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