Those who have been receiving the news about the whistleblower allegations against President Trump with skepticism rather than glee have mostly focused on the rather tenuous second-hand knowledge nature of the claims.
Between May 2018 and August 2019, the intelligence community secretly eliminated a requirement that whistleblowers provide direct, first-hand knowledge of alleged wrongdoings.
This raises questions about the intelligence community's behavior regarding the August submission of a whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump.
The new complaint document no longer requires potential whistleblowers who wish to have their concerns expedited to Congress to have direct, first-hand knowledge of the alleged wrongdoing that they are reporting.
The brand new version of the whistleblower complaint form, which was not made public until after the transcript of Trump's July 25 phone call with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and the complaint addressed to Congress were made public, eliminates the first-hand knowledge requirement and allows employees to file whistleblower complaints even if they have zero direct knowledge of underlying evidence and only "Heard about [wrongdoing] from others."
The big revelation in the whistleblower's complaint is the suggestion that the White House sought to hide the word-for-word transcript of the call.
Whether any of it turns out to be true - my skepticism is even stronger now - the problem that whistleblowing and rumor-mongering have been officially conflated remains.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/whistleblower-requirements-recently-amended-to-allow-only-hearsay/
Between May 2018 and August 2019, the intelligence community secretly eliminated a requirement that whistleblowers provide direct, first-hand knowledge of alleged wrongdoings.
This raises questions about the intelligence community's behavior regarding the August submission of a whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump.
The new complaint document no longer requires potential whistleblowers who wish to have their concerns expedited to Congress to have direct, first-hand knowledge of the alleged wrongdoing that they are reporting.
The brand new version of the whistleblower complaint form, which was not made public until after the transcript of Trump's July 25 phone call with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and the complaint addressed to Congress were made public, eliminates the first-hand knowledge requirement and allows employees to file whistleblower complaints even if they have zero direct knowledge of underlying evidence and only "Heard about [wrongdoing] from others."
The big revelation in the whistleblower's complaint is the suggestion that the White House sought to hide the word-for-word transcript of the call.
Whether any of it turns out to be true - my skepticism is even stronger now - the problem that whistleblowing and rumor-mongering have been officially conflated remains.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/whistleblower-requirements-recently-amended-to-allow-only-hearsay/
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