Do you have a link that verifies this was changed? I keep seeing claims about such and such(i.e. Ukraine didn’t know the aid had been delayed until after the call) and then I spend time trying to find verification and I can’t. We need to have verifiable facts to refute this claim because in my opinion his statement of “do us a favor” is a very poor choice of words and does give the impression that he was trying to pressure the Ukraine.
Lindsey Graham on Face The Nation discussing that it was changed
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/09/29/lindsey_graham_the_whistleblower_complaint_is_just_hearsay.html
Lindsey Graham: “Why Did They Change The Rules” Allowing Whistleblowers To Cite Hearsay? “This Thing Stinks”
Posted By Tim Hains
On Date September 29, 2019
Intel Community Secretly Gutted Requirement Of First-Hand Whistleblower Knowledge
Federal records show that the intelligence community secretly revised the formal whistleblower complaint form in August 2019 to eliminate the requirement of direct, first-hand knowledge of wrongdoing.
...The internal properties of the newly revised “Disclosure of Urgent Concern” form, which the intelligence community inspector general (ICIG) requires to be submitted under the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act (ICWPA), show that the document was uploaded on September 24, 2019, at 4:25 p.m., just days before the anti-Trump complaint was declassified and released to the public. The markings on the document state that it was revised in August 2019, but no specific date of revision is disclosed...