A CIA analyst just stopped short of naming the whistle-blower who he described as a LEAKER not a protected whistle-blower. He also went on to explain that the form and requirement for first hand knowledge were removed specifically for this leaker in an attempt to give him/her cover and make it so they can not be investigated. He went on to state that this individual was a deep state operative with direct connections to John Brennen and Obama. Laura Ingraham stopped him short of naming the individual that he clearly had the name of...
The Attempted Coup De'Taut is ongoing. The deep state is trying every trick in the book to get Trump! This is blatant treason and it needs to be taken out...
These people are brazen and criminals!
This ^ is a lie. The supposed "rule change" never happened, and furthermore the whistleblower does indeed have first hand information.
Also, your post has no link.
Wrong. Even Dims accept the fact that the rule changed.
Yeah, a year and a half ago.
Not even then.
"In a
statement issued late Monday afternoon, the inspector general of the intelligence community (ICIG) said that the form submitted by the whistleblower on August 12, 2019, was the same one the ICIG has had in place since May 24, 2018. The statement reiterated the fact that having firsthand knowledge of the event has never been required in order to submit a whistleblower complaint. "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," the ICIG's statement continues, "by law the Complainant...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.""
Fact check: Trump and other Republicans falsely claim whistleblower rules changed just before Ukraine complaint - CNNPolitics
Bullfeathers
Only Congress can amend the statute. The Federal Circuit is the ONLY Court that hears whistleblower complainst. Itb has ruled that:
The government similarly argues that petitioner did not have a "reasonable belief" as required by the statute regarding many of the alleged disclosures. T
he WPA requires that the employee have a reasonable belief that he is disclosing: 1) a violation of law, rule, or regulation; or 2) gross mismanagement, a gross waste of funds, an abuse of authority, or a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety. 5 U.S.C. § 2302(b)(8)(A); LaChance v. White, 174 F.3d 1378, 1380-81 (Fed. Cir. 1999); Frederick v. Dep't of Justice, 73 F.3d 349, 352 (Fed. Cir. 1996). Specifically, the government argues that petitioner could not have a reasonable belief that he was disclosing a violation or gross mismanagement because
several of the disclosures were apparently based on rumor, namely the May 22, 1998, disclosure concerning the practice of hiring analysts and "impermissibly" converting them into auditors, and the June 18, 1998, disclosure concerning the Deputy Assistant Inspector General for Audits instructing employees to falsify their government employment applications.
The government urges that if petitioner does not have a factual basis for an allegation, he cannot have made a protected disclosure, citing Frederick, 73 F.3d at 353. Unfortunately, the Board failed to determine if petitioner presented evidence of his reasonable belief concerning these disclosures. We decline the government's invitation to decide the reasonable belief question in the first instance. We remand to the Board to address the issue of whether petitioner had the required reasonable belief with respect to the allegations."
Huffman v. Office of Personnel Management, 263 F.3d 1341 (Fed. Cir. 08/15/2001)
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