re: It’s becoming clear there is no whistleblower

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whistleblower complaints with those deemed "credible" and "urgent" thus requiring transmission to Congress. Here is the language describing requisites of the ICWPA process:

"In order to find an urgent concern “credible,” the IC IG must be in possession of reliable, first-hand information. The IC IG cannot transmit information via the ICWPA based on an employee’s second-hand knowledge of wrongdoing."

The confusion about the whistleblower form is generated from the fact the ICIG chose to transmit information via the ICWPA based on an employee’s second-hand knowledge and speculation about the existence of wrongdoing.

As such an action is not in keeping with past enforcement of the law, or with past statutory requirements of the ICWPA, most here and in the media assumed the law must have changed. As it turns out, the law did not change. It appears the ICIG simply chose to skate around it by recategorizing second-hand knowledge as first-hand information.

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It doesn't say that to prevent whistleblowers from submitting reports based on secondhand knowledge. It's to note that reports that will not be forwarded on unless the IG was able to obtain relevant first hand information.

E.g. I hear someone bragging about their luxurious hotel and room service they enjoyed while on a work trip with their supervisor. The IG might look at those receipts, then use THAT information and not just my hearsay.