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Gee surprise,surprise ICIG Admits it Changed Whistleblower Rules BECAUSE of the Anti-Trump Complaint

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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,638 Founders Club
    Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson released a statement on Monday addressing the changes.

    In the letter Atkinson admitted the changes to the form were made at the time of the partisan CIA leaker’s complaint.


    The ICIG also admitted that it changed its own whistleblower rules *because of the anti-Trump complaint* from the CIA spy:

    In June 2019, the newly hired Director for the Center for Protected Disclosures entered on duty. Thus, the Center for Protected Disclosures has been reviewing the forms provided to whistleblowers who wish to report information with respect to an urgent concern to the congressional intelligence committees. In the process of reviewing and clarifying those forms, and in response to recent press inquiries regarding the instant whistleblower complaint, the ICIG understood that certain language in those forms and, more specifically, the informational materials accompanying the forms, could be read – incorrectly – as suggesting that whistleblowers must possess first-hand information in order to file an urgent concern complaint with the congressional intelligence committees.
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,638 Founders Club
  • CirrhosisDawg
    CirrhosisDawg Member Posts: 6,390
    This has legs!
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,638 Founders Club
    Gosh the mullertards got caught in another big lie

  • CirrhosisDawg
    CirrhosisDawg Member Posts: 6,390

    Gosh the mullertards got caught in another big lie

    Caught? 😂
  • DJDuck
    DJDuck Member Posts: 5,970

    This has legs!

    Glad you can see that since it was the ICIG admitting they changed rules specifically for this complaint.

  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,188
    The law didn't require that the information be first-hand, but the way the law had been implemented was to require that the Whistle blower did have first hand info. They even wrote up the whistle blower forms to include that requirement even though it wasn't required by the statute. The discretion of the IG required a higher standard than required by the law. That changed in August, and they did have to change their forms based upon this change.

  • CirrhosisDawg
    CirrhosisDawg Member Posts: 6,390
    Impeachment inquiry is underway and a vote is expected later this year.
  • HHusky
    HHusky Member Posts: 24,366
    SFGbob said:

    The law didn't require that the information be first-hand, but the way the law had been implemented was to require that the Whistle blower did have first hand info. They even wrote up the whistle blower forms to include that requirement even though it wasn't required by the statute. The discretion of the IG required a higher standard than required by the law. That changed in August, and they did have to change their forms based upon this change.

    blob supports unelected bureaucrats changing the laws. He's "conservative" that way.
  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457

    Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson released a statement on Monday addressing the changes.

    In the letter Atkinson admitted the changes to the form were made at the time of the partisan CIA leaker’s complaint.


    The ICIG also admitted that it changed its own whistleblower rules *because of the anti-Trump complaint* from the CIA spy:

    In June 2019, the newly hired Director for the Center for Protected Disclosures entered on duty. Thus, the Center for Protected Disclosures has been reviewing the forms provided to whistleblowers who wish to report information with respect to an urgent concern to the congressional intelligence committees. In the process of reviewing and clarifying those forms, and in response to recent press inquiries regarding the instant whistleblower complaint, the ICIG understood that certain language in those forms and, more specifically, the informational materials accompanying the forms, could be read – incorrectly – as suggesting that whistleblowers must possess first-hand information in order to file an urgent concern complaint with the congressional intelligence committees.

    So your source agrees that it doesn't have to be first hand knowledge. Got it.