Citizen Group Demands DOJ Investigate Missing Call Logs

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20. The difference is the lack of evidence

It isn't illegal for the president to use a cell phone (or other Oval Office line that isn't captured by that log). The story makes clear that it's pretty common (including the Obama administration). In fact - if the excerpt below represents presidential calls that wouldn't be logged... just about every Oval Office call depicted on The West Wing would escape the log.

It IS illegal to use any of those to conceal criminal activity, but that's circular. We can't say that the gap is evidence of criminal activity being concealed. Same for the "burner" notion. We knew that calls were being made and that they weren't in the log... so we assumed there was a "burner" phone involved. Except we now know that no burner phone was needed in order to avoid the log. Normal Oval Office calls also avoided the log.

if then-President Barrack Obama wanted to make a call to someone from the Oval Office, he would normally ask an aide seated nearby to dial the person. The aide would then call the number and hit transfer to connect the caller to the President.

That call would not show up on the log yet no burner phone was involved nor reason to believe that Obama was hiding illegal activity. The story was that we thought we had a clear smoking gun that evidence had been intentionally destroyed (itself a crime).

CREW alleges "destroying critical records" and "...portions of the call logs were destroyed to cover up..." - yet there's no evidence that either happened given what we now know.