Posted on 10/07/2019 7:57:38 AM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The IG is dirty. Bank it.
The hangings in the Swamp need to commence.
To paraphrase Stalin, “It doesn’t matter what is investigated, but who does the investigating.”
So many traitors...so little time.
Nice posting job, thanks. Monica is a fav.
So it’s ex post facto?
conspiracy to overthrow the government sedition insurrection etc..whistleblower his attorneys, schiff, pelosi all need to be investigated..schiff needs to be immediately removed from ic.
guess they thought no one would notice eh? this is serious.
Why is Attkinson still sitting at his desk today???
The ICIG is Michael Atkinson.
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.
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So the “rules” were changed to fit the fabrication of non-evidence. That’s not a perversion of law. No sir. Not one bit.
They are deathly afraid that the entire Kenyanesian Usurpation and all the crimes therein will be exposed.
“ “[T]he timing of the removal of the first-hand information requirement raises questions about potential connections to this whistleblower’s complaint,” three House Republican lawmakers wrote in a letter to Atkinson on September 30. “This timing, along with numerous apparent leaks of classified information about the contents of this complaint, also raise questions about potential criminality in the handling of these matters.””
Not that the DOJ will look into it......
The corruption is so wide and deep, I am thinking it cannot be fixed from within the system. We may soon need a Storm the Bastille moment with a lot of traitors hanging up and down Pennsylvania Avenue to have any impact at all.
Why does it matter to this case if the form was changed? According to the IG the whistleblower used the old form.
They would if they were not part of the soft coup, which they are!
The IG intel need to respond to questions & provide the paperback up to support the revision. There should be a paper trail of sign off on the revision. If there is none, the policy really isn’t in place. That means it is fraudulent.
I have no interest in defending Atkinson but I do want to expose Davis’s manipulation of the credulous.
It would be a simple matter for Atkinson to state -— YOU ARE WRONG ALL OF YOU. THE RULES HAVE BEEN IN PLACED LONG BEFORE THIS WHISTLEBLOWER CAME OUT TO ALLOW SECOND HAND INFORMATION. *THAT* would have been a good response.
Funny, that’s almost exactly what he did state.
In the official statement from the ICIG he says:
”The Disclosure of Urgent Concern form the Complainant submitted on August 12, 2019 is the same form the ICIG has had in place since May 24, 2018...
He also says:
”At the time the Complainant filed the Disclosure of Urgent Concern form with the ICIG on August 12, 2019, the ICIG followed its routine practice and provided the Complainant information, including “Background Information on ICWPA Process,” which included the following language: In order to find an urgent concern “credible,” the IC IG must be in possession of reliable, first-hand information. The IC IG cannot transmit information via the ICWPA based on an employee’s second-hand knowledge of wrongdoing.”
Finally, the WB did claim to have direct knowledge and the IG agreed.
Given that, why would they bother to change the form? They weren’t relying only on second hand information anyway.
Look closely at the statements by Davis and the Congressmen and you’ll see that they don’t dispute any of these facts and don’t provide a plausible reason for the IG to change anything for this WB when he claimed direct knowledge on the old form?
They’re just throwing dust in the air to try to confuse us, and I resent it.
Dirty, yet appointed by Trump. It’s a poisoned pool that he draws from.
Backdating a legal document, or a check, is considered fraud in any legal context.
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