Posted on 10/01/2019 10:29:37 AM PDT by maggief
The inspector general for the intelligence community said late Monday that the whistleblower whose complaint touched off an impeachment inquiry claimed to have firsthand knowledge of misconduct -- a claim that appears to conflict with documents sent to Congress and the director of national intelligence.
The lengthy statement Monday was posted in response to questions, raised in the media and by congressional Republicans, about the disclosure form filed by the whistleblower, who first flagged concerns about President Trump's July phone call in which he asked the leader of Ukraine to "look into" actions by former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. The IG said the whistleblower stated on an initial form Aug. 12 "that he or she possessed both first-hand and other information."
According to the watchdog, the whistleblower "checked two relevant boxes" on the form: One stating, "I have personal and/or direct knowledge of events or records involved”; and the other box stating, “Other employees have told me about events or records involved.”
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Doesn’t the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel blow this whole whistleblower and urgent concern reporting to Congress to hell?
According to the OLC the claimant can’t be afforded whistleblower protection and the ICIG shouldn’t have provided the claim to Congress. That opinion took the whole thing apart.
Calling JUDICIAL WATCH. Time for FOIA requests for ALL documentation and records on changing the CIA Whistleblower forms. FOR PAST TWO YEARS.
CIA person claimed to have first hand knowledge up until the transcripts began to come out and did not match his bogus story
Quickly amended to hearsay to avoid perjury trap
Wheels falling off.
This whistleblower thing was weak sauce on Day One.
The two are not mutually exclusive. He has direct knowledge of someone else. Lol. By checking both, he was stating it was not double swapped. There was the original blower. And one swapper only. A second swapper, like a second shooter, may not know the blower. Lol.
This is easy to verify. Just release a list of those that were present and see if the “whistleblower” was one of them.
If not then it’s all fake. ....we know the answer already.
Recall that a few weeks ago Biden said he “believed in the truth over facts”!
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