To: agatheringstorm; GOPJ; SaveFerris; DoughtyOne
This revelation does explain one thing that has been bothering me all day: Why didnt Joseph Macguire bring up the IC regulation that whistleblowers must have first-hand knowledge in the hearing with the House?? Well...he didnt bring it up because the regulation was changed and there was no longer that requirement!The article claims that the WB form was changed this month to allow WB complaints based on second hand knowledge. If that is true, it seems very convenient for never Trumpers in the spook agencies.
I did not watch every second of MacGuire's testimony, but I suspect nobody asked him about this.
The problem is that the law states that if the complaint is "urgent," it has to be turned over to congress. If we include hearsay evidence, how do you even determine if it is "urgent" or even credible in any way?
89 posted on
09/27/2019 3:40:57 PM PDT by
ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
This month? This is the first sentence of the article at the link.
Between May 2018 and August 2019, the intelligence community secretly eliminated a requirement that whistleblowers provide direct, first-hand knowledge of alleged wrongdoings.
100 posted on
09/27/2019 4:48:44 PM PDT by
HollyB
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
The problem is that the law states that if the complaint is "urgent," it has to be turned over to congress. If we include hearsay evidence, how do you even determine if it is "urgent" or even credible in any way? That's the correct question to ask, see my previous posts.
141 posted on
09/28/2019 12:09:25 PM PDT by
palmer
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