Backdating the whistleblower rules change? Intel IG doesn't want to answer questions about it

American Thinker ^ | 10/07/2019 | Monica Showalter

[SeekAndFind]

Deep State has been after President Trump from the before his presidency, and its latest trick has been in orchestrating a rules change to ensure that any deep-stater can come forward with secondhand information, as a "whistleblower.

It's supposedly to ensure that wrongdoing bruited about at the spy agency water coolers gets into the hands of authorities. Problem one: Spy agencies don't do water cooler talk.

But politics is always a topic, so now we have one or two leakers from the ranks of the still-embittered Deep State, taking the cover of 'whistleblower' as a result of that rules change, with a string of unsubstantiated secondhand information.

Sean Davis at the Federalist has been doing a yeoman's job of ferreting out this leaks-as-whistles con job, with the first report that the rules allowing secondhand stories to go into whistleblower filings were mysteriously changed just in time for the first whistleblower to come forward, supposedly in August.

Now he reports that it gets worse. Davis reports that it turns out the rules weren't changed in August, they were changed in September, and the watchdog agency, the Intelligence Community Inspector General (IGIC) backdated that rules change.

In tense testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) on Friday, the inspector general for federal spy agencies refused to disclose why his office backdated secret changes to key whistleblower forms and rules in the wake of an anti-Trump whistleblower complaint filed in August, sources told The Federalist.

As The Federalist reported and the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) confirmed, the spy watchdog secretly changed its whistleblower forms and internal rules in September to eliminate a requirement that whistleblowers provide first-hand evidence to support any allegations of wrongdoing.

[rolling_stone]

They're trying to manipulate you.

methinks you are trying to manipulate...
it does matter when and how they changed the form it is very important, it doesn't matter which form he used there is a new form for the future.(WB#2?) if proper procedures were not followed that would point to bad act on behalf of those who changed the form, kept it secret and didn't mention it until caught..coverup? consciousness of guilt?we need to see the complete signed form, they can redack WB name. We need to know if WB is bonafide WB or not, and vet them. IMO no excuse for IG not to have briefed superiors before they got caught...

[semimojo]

I do not recall any evidence I have seen that the ICIG was correct in finding first hand knowledge.

I don't either and have no interest in defending him.

We need to know much more.

[semimojo]

it does matter when and how they changed the form it is very important,

Maybe for the next whistleblower, as you say, but they’re dishonestly trying to make us think it matters for this one.