“The whistleblower wasn’t in the room! Where have you been? It was second hand information.”
Thank you for saying the above. But I’ve been right here.
Second hand information is called in the legal terms “hearsay,” and is inadmissible as it is nothing but a rumor. The only person that can substantiate any information and fall under whistleblower protection is the actual person who heard it and repeated it, and if they were not members of the CIA or FBI who don’t qualify. Therefore, there is no evidence to have a trial with and they are threatening to have it anyway with nothing.
And that’s the point. The identified witness they are displaying is nothing on the charts except he can be sued for slander/liable because he can’t be protected by whistleblower laws for starting a rumor defamating Trump with no evidence and just making the rumor up plus he is not attached to any governmental organization at the time of the statement.
So the Schiff committee trying to hide him in the position of a whistleblower is more crap on the pile. All he has is made up rumors. That’s liable.
rwood
The Intel IG, Atkinson, changed the requirements for Whistleblowers and how info can be reported.
He’s also linked to Mueller, Wiseman and that whole debacle.