The Whstleblower lied from the outset, claimed to have "firsthand" knowledge of misconduct

doesn't matter the narrative is out that he had first hand knowledge....

goal was achieved. most wont know of the correction

The truth is they still haven’t accepted the results of the 2016 election, and they’ll do anything to overturn it.

i think this whole thing smells like the clinton machine.

1) Attack Trump/try to de-legitimatize his election yet again

2) Attack biden, the front runner in the process.

3) also, in the news this week, was "big Dem doners" sitting out or supporting trump if warren is the dem nomination

4) today, Facebook says it will plan on suing fedgov if warren is elected

All these attempts will lead Hillary to "reluctantly" step in to save the party and the nation...

Looks like the IG is going with incompetence on his part. Maybe it will save him, and he can undo the damage, but feel it’s too late, and feel he’s a deep State agent, hiding in the open.....

Trump fricked them by releasing the transcript.

He was supposed to block its release to protect the office

If the transcript was hidden this bullshite would be believed without question

So basically in any criminal court of law in the US he would be impeached by the court but he’s credible in an attack on the CEO of the US. Libtard logic.

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So ANOTHER Dem attempt to subvert an open and free election was based on a fricking lie.

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Democrat attempt or the Clinton machine?

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The inspector general for the intelligence community said late Monday that the whistleblower whose complaint touched off an impeachment inquiry claimed to have firsthand knowledge of misconduct

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Is the IG illiterate? Because it does not matter WTF the WB "claims", the complaint included zero first-hand info. If the IG read it, he'd know that.

Deja Vu

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The inspector general for the intelligence community said late Monday that the whistleblower whose complaint touched off an impeachment inquiry claimed to have firsthand knowledge of misconduct -- a claim that appears to conflict with documents sent to Congress and the director of national intelligence. The lengthy statement Monday was posted in response to questions, raised in the media and by congressional Republicans, about the disclosure form filed by the whistleblower, who first flagged concerns about President Trump's July phone call in which he asked the leader of Ukraine to "look into" actions by former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. The IG said the whistleblower stated on an initial form Aug. 12 "that he or she possessed both first-hand and other information."

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So ANOTHER Dem attempt to subvert an open and free election was based on a fricking lie.

Where have we heard this story before?

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Sounds more like another sad attempt by Repubs to lie and redirect from the truth:


The original whistleblower complaint to the ICIG:

"I was not a direct witness to MOST of the events described".

Complainant's Letter to IC IG

Most does not equal "all". This therefore implies that there were in fact a number of events that the whistleblower WAS in direct witness to. The linked Fox article is titled,

"Intelligence watchdog now says whistleblower claimed 'first-hand' knowledge, in departure from declassified complaint"

To make such a title, is to make very much the implication that the "Intelligence Watchdog" - known formally as the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) - stated initially that the whistleblower complainant had none nor gave no such information that was derived through first-hand knowledge, when the ICIG made no such implication whatsoever in ANY documentation, letters, nor statements known to the public at this time. This is once again a very obvious case of FAKE NEWS that Fox has been entrenched deeply within since before Trump was elected President.

In the ICIG's statement dated September 30th, 2019 that the Fox article references:

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The Disclosure of Urgent Concern form the Complainant submitted on August 12, 2019 is
the same form the ICIG has had in place since May 24, 2018, which went into effect before
Inspector General Atkinson entered on duty as the Inspector General of the Intelligence
Community on May 29, 2018, following his swearing in as the Inspector General of the
Intelligence Community on May 17, 2018. Although the form requests information about whether
the Complainant possesses first-hand knowledge about the matter about which he or she is lodging the complaint, there is no such requirement set forth in the statute.

In fact, by law the Complainant – or any individual in the Intelligence Community who wants to report information with respect to an urgent concern to the congressional intelligence committees – need not possess first-hand information in order to file a complaint or information with respect to an urgent concern. The ICIG cannot add conditions to the filing of an urgent concern that do not exist in law. Since Inspector General Atkinson entered on duty as the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, the ICIG has not rejected the filing of an alleged urgent concern due to a whistleblower’s lack of first-hand knowledge of the allegations.

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ICIG Statement On Processing Whistleblower Complaints

So, the TRUTH is - despite what Fox reports - is that according to the ICIG an intelligence community whistleblower complainant need not have ANY first-hand knowledge of an abuse of authority in order to file a complaint of urgent concern. But according to the whistleblower in this particular case, he/she actually DID have some degree of first-hand knowledge, just the same.....