The only problem with that statement is that the Form-401 form dated 24MAY2018 on its header is called Urgent Concern Disclosure Form, four words, not Disclosure of Urgent Concern Form, five words, on the un-numbered, August 2019 (note, no specific date) form released on September 27, 2019 as a PDF where the meta data shows first creation dates only as early as September 25.
What we see here, in these statements from the ICIGs office, is what is called dancing to cover their tracks. Note the name they use in this particular excuse sentence is the preferred name someone renamed the new form, NOT the name of the form the whistleblower actually used, a form of begging the question.
Whoever created the phony new form gratuitously and pleonastically renamed it to what they thought it should be called, rearranging the name and adding unnecessary word of (breaking the fewest-number-of-words-on-a-form-is-better rule), rather than using the perfectly good, previously used and already government approved, shorter four word name.
Some people cannot resist breaking that other rule of KISS. Keep It Simple, Stupid. The form forger should have taken the exact format of the original form and simply slipped the new wording into the old form, keeping the ICIG Form-401 number, changing the revision date in the correct format, and maintaining the name, and resisting the urge to amend the name, i.e., not made editorial changes to suit his or her peculiarities esthetic in writing style.
Government form creation is not the time nor the place to exercise ones creative writing style, there is a style book one must adhere to. Another rule: when in government do as the government does. If the stupid forger had, the subtle changes would likely not have been noticed, instead, they stand out like they were intended to be noticed.
On the other hand, semimojo, perhaps that was the forgers intent, similar to the more than fifty Oh so obvious unforced errors on Obamas Long Form Birth Certificate that just begged Hey! Look over here! Im a Fraud!
Unless they handed this creation job to some highschool intern to create (anybody believe they are THAT stupid), then they handed this job to someone really stupid to do. . . A person who did make unforced errors in its creation that called attention to its fraudulent nature with big RED FLAGS that it cant be an official government form.
OK. For the sake of argument I'll stipulate that the form was fraudulent.
What earthly difference did it make given that the WB claimed, and the ICIG verified, direct knowledge?