WASHINGTON - When the White House first released the reconstructed transcript of President Donald Trump's July 25 phone conversation with the president of Ukraine, some former government officials noticed something peculiar about it.
The complaint explained that the transcript of the call between Mr Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, was handled in a highly unusual manner, stored not in the National Security Council's main computer system but in a far more secret and restricted system maintained by intelligence officials within the White House.
Records of presidential calls with foreign leaders would be stored there only rarely, they said, in cases where those topics were discussed with close American partners like the leaders of Britain and Israel. "We need to look into the allegation that this may not be the only communication of a potentially corrupt character that was shielded by this classified information computer system abused for that purpose," Representative Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told reporters on Thursday at the Capitol.
All officials at the agency, whose size has ranged from about 100 to 150 staff members in recent years, have security clearances that allow them access to a shared classified computer network on which countless documents are stored, many of them categorised at relatively low levels of secrecy.
Singapore Latest News, Singapore Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: ChannelNewsAsia - 🏆 6. / 66 Read more »
Source: ChannelNewsAsia - 🏆 6. / 66 Read more »
Source: The Straits Times - 🏆 8. / 63 Read more »
Source: YahooSG - 🏆 3. / 71 Read more »
Source: ChannelNewsAsia - 🏆 6. / 66 Read more »
Source: ChannelNewsAsia - 🏆 6. / 66 Read more »