Posted on 09/29/2019 2:50:20 PM PDT by Swordmaker
You should, or you won’t know what you’re talking about when you post anything about the Inspector General for the Intelligence Community. I decided I’d better read the law that governs his actions and now I know he’s full of crap. His determination that the so-called "whistleblower" had credibility is blown out of the water by the words of this statute, as are the claims he has jurisdiction to send it on to the Congressional Intelligence Oversight Committees. . . because it establishes exactly who his mandate covers and what his jurisdiction covers and the timelines for reporting to Congress. . . and 1) the President is clearly not among those under the IG has either the authority or jurisdiction to report, 2) it exposes that games are being played in the IC IG’s office with the statutory time frames the law requires, and 3) either the IC IG doesn’t know the limits of his jurisdictional mandate, or he does and is deliberately and criminally abusing his office and power in furtherance of an illegal coup attempt.
Given the other evidence popping up out of the IC IG’s office in August and September with secretly changed rules of engagement and forms that don’t even meet government standards that seem obviously tailored to permit this one "whistleblower" complaint, a complaint which would have under prior standards been routinely trash-canned for not meeting previous quality-of-evidence standards due to it being based purely on rumor and second- and third-hand un-corroborated information, to be not only accepted, but then found "credible," using only that un-corroborated second-hand evidence which would have caused it previously to be rejected out-of-hand, is far too convenient. I just don’t believe in coincidences.
If WE don’t read these things, which they are counting on, they win!
Outstanding post, thank you very much.
As I thought and after reading all of your info., this whole whistleblower crap is a total fraud against this country and these people need serious jail time.
Since I wasn't planning to any time soon, I'll pass.
Besides, laws don't apply to Deep Staters. Or haven't you noticed?
ML/NJ
It’s because we don’t hold them to the law often because we don’t know the law and they know we don’t know. They will ride roughshod over you because you’re unsure of where you stand and what they can and cannot do. It wasn’t always that way.
“...1) the President is clearly not among those under the IG has either the authority or jurisdiction to report, 2) it exposes that games are being played in the IC IG’s office with the statutory time frames the law requires, and 3) either the IC IG doesn’t know the limits of his jurisdictional mandate, or he does and is deliberately and criminally abusing his office and power in furtherance of an illegal coup attempt.”
Why hasn’t Rudy or Jay Sekulow pointed out any of that?
I know Rudy has said Trump is the real whistle blower.
I believe they, and others, including the career lawyers both in the Intelligence Community and Department of Justice, have said that exact thing. . . the Inspector General is trying to conflate the President as being a member of the Intelligence Community because the legal counsel he hired says he is due to his being the boss of everything in the executive branch. . . quite a stretch. That would make the president subordinate to every IG’s desire to investigate him.
(B) the term “whistleblower protections” means the protections against and remedies for a prohibited personnel practice described in paragraph (8) or subparagraph (A)(i), (B), (C), or (D) of paragraph (9) of subsection (b).
I don't think that covers spying on a president's phone calls.
Stinking to High Heaven, FRiend.
Thank you very much for the detailed reply. I believe your last paragraph is dead on.
In order to qualify for whistleblower protection, ALL the elements must be met. Only one of those is that the whistleblower be a first hand witness. The first hand witness requirement doesn't appear in the whistleblower statutes, it appears in the whistleblower protection statute.
As you point out, this whistleblower's complaint is invalid because it is essentially using the whistleblower statute to piece executive privilege. Nasty use of the law, nasty, nasty, nasty. Rule of law? What is going on is "break the law while claiming to follow it." This is what liberals do.
This whistleblower can be retailiated against too (firing is a prohibited retailiation in the whistleblower protection statute), because protection depends on being a firsthand witness. This whistleblower will claim whistleblower protection, similar to how McCabe sued for wrongful termination except McCabe didn't use the whistleblower statute. More abuse of the legal system.
Use CIA budget for the wall
The abuse of the law is reaching absurd levels IMO.
The term banana republic will soon have no trace of hyperbole in it when applied to the U.S..
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