White House ordered ultrasecret system upgraded to prevent leaks (logs user access)
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/01/white-house-trump-leaks-code-015194
By DANIEL LIPPMAN and NATASHA BERTRAND
10/01/2019 03:19 PM EDT
Updated: 10/01/2019 06:56 PM EDT
The Trump White House upgraded the security of the National Security Councils codeword system in the spring of 2018, according to two former Trump White House officials familiar with the matter, as part of an effort to ferret out and deter leaks.
The changes included a new log of who accessed specific documents in the NSCs system known as NICE or NSC Intelligence Collaboration Environment and was designed in part to prevent leaks of records of the presidents phone calls with foreign leaders and to find out the suspected leaker if transcripts did get disclosed, one of the former officials said. Prior to the upgrade, officials could only see who had uploaded or downloaded material to the system but usually not who accessed which documents.
That highly classified system is being newly scrutinized in light of a whistleblower complaint alleging that national security officials used the systemmeant for storing information classified at the highest level to conceal politically embarrassing conversations, including a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25 in which President Donald Trump urged Zelensky to investigate his political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden.
If hiding politically embarrassing material, rather than protecting national security secrets, was the motivation, experts and former officials said, it would be an abuse of the codeword system. While not necessarily an illegal act, it does run counter to an executive order signed by President Obama in 2009 that says information cant be classified to conceal violations of law, inefficiency, or administrative error or prevent embarrassment to a person, organization, or agency, they said.
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I think Butterfield just revealed a taping system!!!