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The Trump White House upgraded the security of the National Security Councils top-secret codeword system in the spring of 2018, according to two former Trump White House officials familiar with the matter, as part of an effort to ferret out and deter leaks.
The changes included a new log of who accessed specific documents in the NSCs system known as NICE or NSC Intelligence Collaboration Environmentand was designed in part to prevent leaks of records of the presidents phone calls with foreign leaders and to find out the suspected leaker if transcripts did get disclosed, one of the former officials said. Prior to the upgrade, officials could only see who had uploaded or downloaded material to the system but usually not who accessed which documents.
That highly classified system is being newly scrutinized in light of a whistleblower complaint alleging that national security officials used the systemmeant for storing information classified at the highest levelto conceal politically embarrassing conversations, including a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25 in which President Donald Trump urged Zelensky to investigate his political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden.
If hiding political embarrassing material, rather than protecting national security secrets, was the motivation, experts and former officials said, it would be an abuse of the codeword system. While not necessarily an illegal act, it does run counter to an executive order signed by President Obama in 2009 that says information cant be classified to conceal violations of law, inefficiency, or administrative error or prevent embarrassment to a person, organization, or agency, they said.
More: https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/01/white-house-trump-leaks-code-015194
DeterDeter
(70 posts)I knew that they would try to use a "da leakz" excuse. You can't just use a guise of classification to cover your corrupt asses.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)qwerty
iscooterliberally
(2,860 posts)maxrandb
(15,318 posts)Coffevvee
spanone
(135,816 posts)Link to tweet
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woodsprite
(11,910 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)The pw would be the first 5 letters on the upper left, or the upper right if he's left handed. They always do that.
woodsprite
(11,910 posts)She was on extended medical leave and he needed to get a publication out that she hadn't set share permissions on. I knew her login was her first name. For her password I tried her kids' and husband's names, birthdays, anniversaries, etc. I was like "I've tried everything. Don't think it's this, but one last effort". Yeah, her password was her 4-character last name.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)japple
(9,819 posts)It must have been URMYBITCH123!
I also wonder if the server is located under Trump's bed.............
Jim__
(14,074 posts)I hope it lands them all in prison.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Let's tape record oval office conversations!
What could possibly go wrong?
Paranoia will annoy ya!
yonder
(9,663 posts)The ghost of Rose Mary Wood must be lurking about.
Duppers
(28,117 posts)But none of these scumbags should be getting off without serving time.
erronis
(15,222 posts)know everything.
Shouldn't the WH just be able to ask the WayBack machine or even the NSA for logs?
Maybe the clowns around the Offal Office and NSC could just use Google Docs.
ffr
(22,668 posts)Whoot!
TheBlackAdder
(28,182 posts)moonseller66
(430 posts)Not quite whistleblower...but still apropos:
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hughee99
(16,113 posts)Have always had a log.