I was an intelligence analyst, and if I ever turned in a report based off of hearsay and open source media I would have been fired. Analysts are trained to avoid bias by answering assigned IR's (Intelligence Requirements). The "whistleblower" did none of this. +
You can't answer an Intelligence Requirement by linking second hand sourcing with open source news. That's literally EXACTLY the definition of opening your analysis up to bias. He made up his mind at the beginning. It's all conjecture.
And there's nothing in the report that suggests this whistleblower has some greater knowledge of the inner workings of Ukraine, as the NYT suggested. There's nothing there that anyone with access to Google can't figure out. Literally everything is open sourced in this report.
Maybe this guy's a real CIA analyst. If he is, this report should be used at every Intel school in the country as a textbook example of confirmation bias, and how to avoid it in their work.
