The whistleblower mislead the IG about his coordination with the Schiff show

Red States:
CBS Senior Investigative Reporter Catherine Herridge broke news last week about the whistleblower trying to justify why he didn’t tell the ICIG about his contact with the congressional staff of Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA).

But on Monday Herridge tweeted out a picture of the form that the whistleblower, who is believed to be Eric Ciaramella, was required to fill out and swear to be true.

Herridge highlighting the areas that the whistleblower was required to fill out, requiring “a detailed accounting of who is aware of the complaint” and noting they were blank. She also noted his excuses as to why he didn’t identify that he’d informed Schiff’s staff in the area marked “Congress.”
As impeachment enters new phase, did not initially disclose contact w/Schiff staff citing “guidance on a procedural question,” “no substance of the actual disclosure was discussed,” and “way the form question was worded.” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-impeachment-ukraine-whistleblower-schiff-committee-contact-intel-watchdog-documents-say/ 
My Sharpie. My highlighter.

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That leaves a mighty big hole.

His excuses seemed particularly weak, that he just asked “guidance on a procedural question,” “no substance of the actual disclosure was discussed,” and it wasn’t clear the “way the form question was worded.”

It was obviously clear what the form wanted. It was also clearly more than just “guidance on procedure” that he discussed with Schiff’s staff.

As prior reports note, Schiff and therefore his aide clearly knew at least the outlines of the the case and the concerns, so for the whistleblower to suggest that no “substance” was discussed is nonsense.
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The DOJ should consider a case against the "whistleblower" for filing a false and misleading report.  This is reason enough for Republicans to call the guy as a witness, even if he pleads the 5th Amendment.

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