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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsExplicit quid pro quo will be found on full transcript of the Ukranain call! Impeachment certain!
So far all we have is a summary of the July 25th call, but the entire exists, as the whistleblower makes clear:
"In the days following the phone call, I learned from multiple U.S. officials that senior White House officials had intervened to 'lock down' all records of the phone call, especially the official word-for-word transcript of the call that was producedas is customaryby the White House Situation Room."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/26/us/politics/whistle-blower-complaint.html
What the WH naively released is bad enough. Imagine what the word-for-word transcript has!
What they haven't yet released is far worse (having 6-7 more Biden mentions for example) than what they foolishly didn't realize was damning enough.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)skip fox
(19,359 posts)upon discovery that will constitute another count of obstruction and tacit admission of guilt.
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)Thats the question... so far there seems to have been very little penalty for obstruction and theyve never even seen the unredacted mueller rept...
skip fox
(19,359 posts)That claim of representation will be used in a subpoena to examine the entire.
(Esp. since Barr so profoundly misrepresented the Mueller report.)
malaise
(269,067 posts)ITTMF RFN!
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)But digital things can leave fingerprints and who knows how many times the recording data was duplicated across various devices and networks.
skip fox
(19,359 posts)he is emphasizing how perfect call it was.
Each time he says that makes the case for seeing the entire much stronger in terms of a House subpoena.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)any of those recordings or transcripts still existed.
skip fox
(19,359 posts)And the record could include the memory of secretaries, stenographers, file clerks, etc.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)skip fox
(19,359 posts)Like Nixon's tapes did to him.
And most of his defeners in the House and Senate will abandon him when they hear the explicit quid pro quo.
kentuck
(111,104 posts)The White House should be forced to release the full transcript.
(Interns in the office of one senator, Angus King of Maine, read the released version aloud and clocked it at roughly ten minutes.) Not to mention that the comma-for-comma White House readout contains ellipses which may yet prove to be tantamount to the notorious 18-and-a-half-minute gap on an incriminating Nixon White House tape.