Six ways to Sunday? Intelligence chiefs not only altered rules about firsthand knowledge to file whi

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Six ways to Sunday? Intelligence chiefs not only altered rules about firsthand knowledge to file whistleblower report...
American Thinker, Oct 2, 2019, Monica Showalter

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We already know that the intelligence community's inspector general (IGIC} mysteriouly changed its rules for anyone filing a whistleblower complaint, to not needing to have one's information firsthand just before the famed whistleblower filed his or her report sometime around August.

Now it comes to light that this same intelligence committee inspector general's office changed its rules after the whistleblower complaint was filed, not before. And they changed the rules to accommodate the embittered anti-Trump intelligence official, Davis reported.

A brief bullet point list gives some of the flavor of how badly this 'whistleblower' report has been planned and rigged:

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•The whistleblower complaint also revealed a ton of made-up lies, utterly negated by President Trump's unexpected release of the transcript.
•The IGIC never bothered to cross-check the two items of data - the complaint vs. the transcript -- even thought it could have seen it. IGIC just called that basic act of due diligence 'not necessary.'
•The IGIC is still hiding the original whistleblower report from Congress, which has asked to see it.
•The IGIC forwarded its version of the complaint to Congressional Democrats while other agencies with knowledge of the report -- the director of national intelligence (DNI) and the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel -- effectively dismissed the whole thing as junk, saying it was not an 'urgent concern.'


More:  https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/10/six_ways_to_sunday_intelligence_chiefs_not_only_altered_rules_about_firsthand_knowledge_to_file_whistleblower_report.html

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Intel Community Admission Of Whistleblower Changes Raises Explosive New Questions
The Federalist, Oct 1, 2019, Sean Davis

In a press release issued late Monday, the intelligence community inspector general admitted it changed
its policy and its whistleblower form after an anti-Trump complainant alleged that Trump broke the law
during a phone call with the Ukrainian president.

On Monday, the intelligence community inspector general (ICIG) admitted that it did alter its forms and policies governing whistleblower complaints, and that it did so in response to the anti-Trump complaint filed on Aug. 12, 2019. The Federalist first reported the sudden changes last Friday. While many in the media falsely claimed the ICIG’s stunning admission debunked The Federalist’s report, the admission from the ICIG completely affirmed the reporting on the secretive change to whistleblower rules following the filing of an anti-Trump complaint in August.

The ICIG also disclosed for the first time that the anti-Trump complainant filed his complaint using the previously authorized form, the guidance for which explicitly stated the ICIG’s previous requirement for firsthand evidence for credible complaints. The Federalist reported last week that it was not known which form, if any, the complainant used, as the complaint that was declassified and released to the public last week was written as a letter to the two chairmen of the congressional intelligence committees.

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In its press release, the ICIG also explicitly admitted it changed its policies because of the anti-Trump complaint, raising significant questions about whether the watchdog cooked its own books to justify its treatment of the anti-Trump complaint:

In the process of reviewing and clarifying those forms, and in response to recent press inquiries regarding the instant whistleblower complaint, the ICIG understood that certain language in those forms and, more specifically, the informational materials accompanying the forms, could be read — incorrectly — as suggesting that whistleblowers must possess first-hand information in order to file an urgent concern complaint with the congressional intelligence committees.

More:  https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/01/intel-community-admission-of-whistleblower-changes-raises-explosive-new-questions/