Intelligence moves that facilitate attacks on Trump

Sheryl Attkisson:

Much as the intel community changed rules about sharing sensitive intelligence after Trump was elected on the eve of his inauguration… intel community rules about what constitutes a “whistleblower” were reportedly changed just before publicity about the new whistleblower complaint against President Trump.

The following is an excerpt from an article by Sean Davis in The Federalist.

Intel Community Secretly Gutted Requirement Of First-Hand Whistleblower Knowledge

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.

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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 internal properties of the newly revised “Disclosure of Urgent Concern” form, which the intelligence community inspector general (ICIG) requires to be submitted under the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act (ICWPA), show that the document was uploaded on September 24, 2019, at 4:25 p.m., just days before the anti-Trump complaint was declassified and released to the public. The markings on the document state that it was revised in August 2019, but no specific date of revision is disclosed.
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There is more with links to further discussion from Davis.  It looks like there are some people in the intelligence agencies who have been trying to facilitate a coup against the President since the election and they are going to extremes in this case.

There should be an investigation by Senate Republicans into who is responsible for this change in the rules.  Those people whould be held to account for facilitating this coup attempt.