Department that essentially says the president is above the director, therefore the president is not subject to the jurisdiction of the director, therefore it doesnt meet the definition of urgent concern, therefore the Inspector General is done. The Inspector General cant investigate anymore. Thats the Inspector Generals reading of the Department Opinion, that he is no longer allowed to investigate this. Is that your reading as well . Chairman, not necessarily the president , but the allegation has to relate to the funding, administration, operation of an Intelligence Activity within the responsibility and the authority of the director of National Intelligence. Okay. Im just trying to get to whether the president is somehow beyond the reach of the law. No, sir. No person in this country is beyond the reach of the law. Well, thats the way it should be but im trying to figure out whether thats the way it is as a practical fact. The Inspector General believes that based on the opinion tha
officials that senior white house officials had intervened to lock down all records of the phone call especially the word for word official transcript of the call that is produced as is customer by the sit room. one white house official described this act as an abuse of the electronic system because the call didn t contain anything remotely sensitive from the national security perspective. this reminded me of the nutjob meeting that the president had with the russians in the oval office, that is an example of where trump, right after firing comey, basically said that doing so had relieved great pressure on him, and that leaked out, and that was very damaging to the president. what we see in this complaint is that there are apparently other conversations like that that the president has had that are so potentially embarrassing or problematic that they have been sort of stored away elsewhere.