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Peters Letter to Cipollone re: Reported Misuse of White House Classified Systems for Presidential Conversations with Foreign Leaders Whistleblower Complaint on Ukraine (Kelly Smith, comp.) 1 (10/17/19)

handle is hein.presidents/usgvtwht0095 and id is 1 raw text is: kF1 tFdH Stat ' latC FOMELAND CUR'TY AND GOVFRJFF'NMNTA AFFANFS i.A HINGTO, D 010b, October 16, 2019 Mr Pat CipollOne Wh te House Counsel The White Ilouse 16(00 Pennsylvania A enue. _\NW Washington. DC 20500 Dear Mr. Cipollone: On Se',ptember 25i 2019. the White House released a memorandum rouighly transcribing a July I21 2019) call hetiveen Presidenit Donald Trumip and U krainian President Volodvymyr Zeensky.1 Durine the course of this conversation. President Zelensky thanked President Trump fOr the aid and Support provided by the Inited States to Ukraine, and President Trump asked that Ukraine investgate allWaios invlving a potential political rival in the 2020 Presidential eeton. I amn deeply alarmed by President Trump's requests during this call andl actions reportedly taken to suspend congressionally appropriated military and security aid for- Ukramine approximately one week prior to this call. ,I am fiurther troubled by allegations in a wvhistleblowecr complaint, released publiclonb September 26, 2019, that the White House attempted to lock down- record-s of, President Trump's July 25. 2019 call. Thi disclsue received a preliminary review f'rom the Intel igence Comunity Inspectr General (10). whio determined it appeared credible and Pat the dei ition oan -urgent concerln' The whistleblower complaint alleges that a word f'or wvord transcript of the call was not stored on a comuter syem tyially used fOr such records but instead moved to a standalone comnputer system- managed by the Nqational Security Council Directorate for Intelligence Prorams. that is reserved for codeword-level intelligence informatio A senior Wht House official has since confir-med that the memorandum of the telephone conversation was stored on this mor01e secure- s'tmThe whistleblowver complaint stats that this move was made at the IMC1mormalndu otF' elephone Convesaton. Telephone Converaon with Presdent Zelenskyy of Ukrane (July 25, 2019) (ecasifed b ord rfte Prsdet Sept. 24,2019) 25m 29 call b on r sidet Dal fru pan Ukrainian pidet, ficials s Washington Post (Sept. During9 thettose ofwwthisgconversaomntion, alsecutyZelenskyorderedoldnltrumpd-ay-fore-ai calln supprtnnprvidednthefficited Statesto3/df9aincad- Pe-8dent498eabc129a0 styhtmUine Letar from Mael K Atkinvong Ipecor Goenal of e Intllc Commuit. to JoPr eph niaguire, Acting Director ofNatioaI (Augd 26p 20 19) Lend to Chamnan Rioa B anat Selct Commitee on Ineligence, and Chairman Adim S ailf, House weektpsiorothlicl.2eouaddfurte/20190812 by whlleblowerncomplainthuncasslpdf)r(herelnante Padmet the dfinition o an ugenc t cern. Thetrto Chirle urr and Schiffa) onha con r yster tpirc ed or uch rcrs bt ihla Sed Sste NN (Sept. 27, 2019) httprogrs, ww scrncoms 0 o odewonad-teun p ainelencirti A - hitehuou

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