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Intel IG Admits It Secretly Erased ‘First-Hand Information’ Requirement thefederalist.com/2019/09/30/int…
The Intelligence Community Inspector General released a statement admitting the office changed its forms for whistleblowers between May 2018 and August 2019, as The Federalist first reported.
As The Federalist’s Sean Davis noted, “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.”
The timing of the change is important, as it bookends the period when an anonymous person filed a whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump for a phone call with the president of Ukraine.
While law does not require those who file whistleblower claims to offer first-hand information of an urgent concern, federal regulations on ICWPA Process” state the ICIG must possess reliable, first-hand information in order to find the whistleblower credible.
Despite the form changes and the requirement for possession of first-hand information, the ICIG statement admits the Ukraine whistleblower filed an outdated report and checked that he or she had first-hand knowledge of the experience, which the complaint itself contradicts.
“The Complainant on the form he or she submitted on August 12, 2019 in fact checked two relevant boxes: The first box stated that, ‘I have personal and/or direct knowledge of events or records involved’; ..
...and the second box stated that, ‘Other employees have told me about events or records involved,'” the statement read.
