Breaking NYT:Vindman told House investigators crucial words & phrases were omiited from transcript

[iluvtennis]

Kyle Griffin
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Breaking via NYT: Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman told House investigators that the White House transcript of a July call between President Trump and Ukraine's president omitted crucial words and phrases, and that his attempts to restore them failed.

White House Ukraine Expert Sought to Correct Transcript of Trump Call
Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, who heard President Trump’s July phone call with Ukraine’s president and was alarmed, testified that he tried and failed to add key details to the rough transcript.
nytimes.com

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that's why a complete transcript of the call is needed. It's my understanding calls aren't recorded anymore (post Nixon), but why can't a court type transcriber be present to capture the complete call.

[gratuitous]

1. Dear Media Folks: It's a call memorandum, not a transcript

I know you know the difference. Please, please, please use accurate language, otherwise you're just confusing your audience. Unless, of course, that's your objective. If so, just tell us, mmmkay?

[Buckeyeblue]

2. I thought there was a written transcript stored on the super secret server.

The memorandum was what was provided to Congress.

[gratuitous]

3. Correct

Which leads quite naturally to the question, "Where is the full transcript?" Trump has total control of the transcript of his "perfect" phone call (whatever in hell that means in Trump's broken brain), but he won't release it. If it so completely vindicates him, why doesn't he publish the full transcript?

It's just so strange how that question never gets raised, much less answered by the administration.

[Buckeyeblue]

7. Agreed. But he knows and we know it doesn't vindicate him.

My guess is that his quest to get dirt on the Bidens goes further and deeper than we ever could imagine. As president, he has unlimited resources. Imagine a person like him with no self control having unlimited resources to pursue every crazy whim that crosses his mind.

[BigmanPigman]

9. Putin said publicly, "The US better not release any

of our conversations" right after it was made news that there is a super secret place for all transcripts. I want Congress to get ALL the transcripts (from Turkey and Syria too).

[Buckeyeblue]

13. The work to undo Trump's damage will take years

[lpbk2713]

17. Decades ... generations.

Trump screwed us good.

[BigmanPigman]

18. My entire family agrees with that assessment.

[Buckeyeblue]

21. And we don't know what he has done for or told Putin.

IMO, Putin will be the world's greatest threat for a while.

[uponit7771]

4. K&R, There's ***NO DOUBT*** Trump has everything related to Joe Biden bugged NO DOUBT

[C_U_L8R]

5. Rose Mary Woods Jr ?

[Takket]

6. Has the House asked for the transcript yet?

[AZ8theist]

8. Doturd is covering up crimes???

In other news, water is wet. Film at 11.....

[RainCaster]

10. Rachel talks about this tonight

Just as I'm reading it, she starts to talk about it.

[James48]

11. Wrong.

It would not be correct to say that a copy of the actual call does not exist.

Think about it-

The call was to a foreign national.

It was NOT on a US military secure line.

Therefore, OUR intelligence services record and have access to every-single-word in that great Utah listening post.

You can bet that a recording DOES exist.

Whether the secret government will disclose it is a different question. But since the early 2000’s, EVERY phone call made outside the US is accessible to the FIVE EYES nations.

While the White House May not have a copy, Congress should ask the intel agencies for a copy.

[Ilsa]

15. Will the UK, etc provide a copy?

I guess no one told trump about other sigint recordings.

[bluecollar2]

16. Nope

Unlike our current situation in the USA releasing classified information is not considered good form..

[orangecrush]

12. Holy shit!

No wonder they attacked him like that!

[crazytown]

14. The transcripts are going to end up like Nixon's tapes -

the last tooth to be extracted.

[hibbing]

19. Then it is not a transcript to begin with, right? n/t

[iluvtennis]

20. It's my understanding that trump released a 'summary' of the phone call. the 'complete trnascript'

has never been released.