NICE (computer system)

NICE (NSC Intelligence Collaboration Environment) is a computer system operated by the United States National Security Council's Directorate for Intelligence Programs. It was created to enable staff to produce and store documents, such as presidential findings or decision memos, on top secret codeword activities. Due to the extreme sensitivity of the material held on it, only about 20 percent of NSC staff can reportedly access the system. The documents held on the system are tightly controlled and only specific named staff are able to access files.[1]

The system became the subject of controversy during the Trump–Ukraine scandal, when a whistleblower complaint to the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community revealed that NICE had been used to store transcripts of calls between President Donald Trump and foreign leaders, apparently to restrict access to them.[2] The system was reportedly used for this purpose from 2017 after leaks of conversations with foreign leaders. It was said to have been upgraded in the spring of 2018 to log who had accessed particular files, as a deterrent against possible leaks.[3]

References
  1. Savage, Charlie; Rosenberg, Matthew; Goldman, Adam (1 October 2019). "The Extra-Secret White House Computer System, Explained". Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  2. "White House Classified Computer System Is Used to Hold Transcripts of Sensitive Calls". The New York Times. September 27, 2019. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
  3. Lippman, Daniel; Bertrand, Natasha (1 October 2019). "White House ordered ultrasecret system upgraded to prevent leaks". Politico. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
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