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BumRushDaShow

(128,979 posts)
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 09:00 PM Oct 2019

White House Ukraine Expert Sought to Correct Transcript of Trump Call

Source: New York Times



WASHINGTON — Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, told House impeachment investigators on Tuesday 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, according to three people familiar with the testimony.

The omissions, Colonel Vindman said, included Mr. Trump’s assertion that there were recordings of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. discussing Ukraine corruption, and an explicit mention by Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, of Burisma Holdings, the energy company whose board employed Mr. Biden’s son Hunter.

Colonel Vindman, who appeared on Capitol Hill wearing his dark blue Army dress uniform and military medals, told House impeachment investigators that he tried to change the reconstructed transcript made by the White House staff to reflect the omissions. But while some of his edits appeared to have been successful, he said, those two corrections were not made.

Colonel Vindman did not testify to a motive behind the editing process. But his testimony is likely to drive investigators to ask further questions about how officials handled the call, including changes to the transcript and the decision to put it into the White House’s most classified computer system — and whether those moves were meant to conceal the call’s most controversial aspects.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/us/politics/alexander-vindman-trump-ukraine.html



Cover up confirmation.
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White House Ukraine Expert Sought to Correct Transcript of Trump Call (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Oct 2019 OP
Damn this is deja-vu all over again groundloop Oct 2019 #1
Aren't all presidential calls taped? B Stieg Oct 2019 #2
Sometimes they use notetakers. BigmanPigman Oct 2019 #3
Same thing I was doing, BP! B Stieg Oct 2019 #4
And this is his boss who will testify Thurs.(Morrison). BigmanPigman Oct 2019 #5
Actually, John Brennan just explained it... B Stieg Oct 2019 #7
Thanks! BigmanPigman Oct 2019 #8
A few weeks ago (I think) there was mention on one of the shows that after Watergate BumRushDaShow Oct 2019 #6
You cannot trust this administration to EVER tell the truth about anything. Haggis for Breakfast Oct 2019 #9
Seriously - they have an EXPERT? ArizonaLib Oct 2019 #10
So now we have a cover-up. Still think it is a nothing burger, Lindsey? yellowcanine Oct 2019 #11

groundloop

(11,519 posts)
1. Damn this is deja-vu all over again
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 09:11 PM
Oct 2019

Nixon - 18 1/2 minute gap in tapes.
tRump - missing sections in transcripts.

Now if we can just get a new President and Vice President out of the process.

BigmanPigman

(51,593 posts)
3. Sometimes they use notetakers.
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 09:36 PM
Oct 2019

I didn't hear why though (watching Rachel Maddow read the NY Times story).

BigmanPigman

(51,593 posts)
5. And this is his boss who will testify Thurs.(Morrison).
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 09:41 PM
Oct 2019

"On Thursday, Timothy Morrison, the National Security Council’s Russia and Europe director, is scheduled to testify. And on Friday, investigators have called Robert Blair, a top national security adviser to Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff."

B Stieg

(2,410 posts)
7. Actually, John Brennan just explained it...
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 09:48 PM
Oct 2019

There is recording software, but apparently the listeners are there to certify the recording's accuracy and explain obscured dialogue.

BumRushDaShow

(128,979 posts)
6. A few weeks ago (I think) there was mention on one of the shows that after Watergate
Tue Oct 29, 2019, 09:44 PM
Oct 2019

they supposedly removed all the "taping" systems out of the White House and they supposedly only use stenographers (several) to capture the conversations and meetings.

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