It’s bad enough that democrats want to remove Trump from office based on hearsay and secret witnesses but it gets worse. They are also changing the rules for the sole purpose of removing Trump.
Prior to the so-called “whistle blower” (WB) coming forward, the language in the complaint form did indicate that the information had to be first hand. IC IG Michael Atkinson changed the form specifically for this WB.
On Monday, the intelligence community inspector general (ICIG) admitted that it did alter its forms and policies governing whistleblower complaints, and that it did so in response to the anti-Trump complaint filed on Aug. 12, 2019. The Federalist first reported the sudden changes last Friday. While many in the media falsely claimed the ICIG’s stunning admission debunked The Federalist’s report, the admission from the ICIG completely affirmed the reporting on the secretive change to whistleblower rules following the filing of an anti-Trump complaint in August.
The ICIG also disclosed for the first time that the anti-Trump complainant filed his complaint using the previously authorized form, the guidance for which explicitly stated the ICIG’s previous requirement for firsthand evidence for credible complaints. The Federalist reported last week that it was not known which form, if any, the complainant used, as the complaint that was declassified and released to the public last week was written as a letter to the two chairmen of the congressional intelligence committees.
Remember that the WB contacted Schiff’s office before he or she contacted the IG and Schiff lied about it.
Michael Atkinson, the IC IG, could not account for the 18 day delay between the Ukrainian call and the filing of the complaint- or even when the WB contacted Schiff’s office.
Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, in testimony to House lawmakers about the whistleblower complaint on President Trump‘s controversial phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart, could not explain what accounted for the 18-day window between the July 25 call and the Aug. 12 complaint filing — or when exactly the whistleblower contacted a key Democrat’s staff, sources familiar with the testimony told Fox News.
The whistleblower’s contact with Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff’s staff before filing the complaint in mid-August has prompted renewed scrutiny of Schiff.
The top Democrat previously said “we have not spoken directly to the whistleblower,” but his office later revised the claim, saying that Schiff himself “does not know the identity of the whistleblower, and has not met with or spoken with the whistleblower or their counsel” for any reason.
Here’s the nitty gritty
Sources familiar with Atkinson’s closed-door, transcribed interview Friday with members of the House Intelligence Committee also noted that Atkinson said the whistleblower did not disclose the contact – during that 18-day window – with Schiff’s office, as Fox News first reported Friday. Sources said Atkinson testified that the whistleblower, in filing the complaint, left “blank” a section in which he or she could have disclosed that congressional contact.
Left it blank- to be filled in later. And there’s a problem with the complainant
Sources further have told Fox News that Atkinson revealed the whistleblower volunteered he or she was a registered Democrat and had a prior working relationship with a prominent Democratic politician.
As in a 2020 candidate.
So Atkinson’s actions make clear that depending on the target of the complaint, the IC is willing to rewrite the language in these forms.
That’s a problem. Sen. Tom Cotton also thinks there is a problem:
Michael Atkinson, the Intelligence Community Inspector General, or ICIG, is under fire for secretly eliminating a requirement that whistleblowers provide first-hand information to support allegations of wrongdoing. The ICIG admitted that it secretly changed its rules and forms in response to an error-ridden complaint filed against President Donald Trump that consisted entirely of gossip, rumor, and second-hand information.
“Your disappointing testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee on September 26 was evasive to the point of being insolent and obstructive,” Cotton, a Republican member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), wrote on Wednesday.
Cotton said Atkinson refused to disclose to SSCI members why Atkinson initially determined the anti-Trump complainant had a partisan political bias against Trump.
“Despite repeated questions, you refused to explain what you meant in your written report by ‘indicia of an arguable political bias on the part of a rival political candidate,’” Cotton wrote. “This information is, of course, unclassified and we were meeting in a closed setting. Yet you moralized about how you were duty bound not to share even a hint of this political bias with us.”
Now we learn that the House changed its rules to be able to further frame Trump. On the very day the WB complaint was filed, Pelosi changed the House rules for impeachment. The language change is here
The two most recent
resolutionsresolutions adopted by the House to authorize an impeachment investigation were taken up by unanimous consent at the request of the Rules Committee chair.15 Rather than convene acommitteecommittee meeting to order the resolutions reported with a quorum present, the chair asked unanimous consent that the House discharge the Rules Committee and agree to the resolution. Both of these resolutions concerned federal judges, and they were agreed to without debate.In the three previous instances of judicial impeachments, however, the House did not approve a resolution explicitly authorizing an impeachment inquiry.16 The Rules of the House since 1975 have granted committees the power to subpoena witnesses and materials, administer oaths, and meet at any time within the United States—powers that were previously granted through resolutions providing blanket investigatory authorities that were agreed to at the start of a Congress or through authorizing resolutions for each impeachment investigation.17 In two of the three recent cases, the House agreed to separate resolutions to allow committee counsel to take affidavits and depositions.18
If the House does approve an authorizing resolution, then in addition to the Rules Committee, the Judiciary Committee can report an original resolution authorizing an impeachment investigation if impeachment resolutions have been referred to the committee.19 In the
In thecase of the most recent authorization of a presidential impeachment inquiry, thefull House did debate the resolutionJudiciary Committee reported such a resolution, and the full House debated it.
(H/T David Harris)
Impeachment is a serious issue. Screwing around with the language of impeachment is well, deplorable. Screwing around with the language with the intent to targeting one person is despicable.
Dems were quick to make public the WB complaint but have kept the Volker testimony secret. We have the statements of Trump and Zelensky denying that there was any pressure or blackmail in the phone call but for some reason dems have thrown that aside for hearsay.
It becomes clear that this is not justice, but rather a lawless conspiracy that seeks to deprive Trump of his rights.
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Except for liberals being foolish.
The Democrat Party not the party of JFK its the Party of the Globalists the CFR and the rest of the NWO why else do they want to disarm us all and open our nations borders the Democrats are a party of Traitors
The main rule the Democrats are adhering to is that they no longer even make an attempt to cover up the fact they are lying. They hold secret depositions and hearings where Republicans are not allowed or where transcripts are not allowed to be released and then lie about the revelations. They are truly entering the realm of the police state where justice is no longer a protection for the citizens. The government seeks out their political enemies and imprisons them to shut them up.
It was Biden. We now know it was Biden. How’s that for a coincidence?
Democrats have no respect nor need of the Constitution. They prefer the Nazi model.
Trump: Democrats are now saying I murdered someone.
Dr. John: Lying Democrats say Trump murdered.
Trump: I did murder.
Dr. John: Lying Democrats claim the death wasn’t an accident.
Trump: I murdered on purpose.
Dr. John: Sometimes, murder is justified.
Trump: it was cold blooded, unnesasary, and I plan to murder again.
Dr. John: Obviously, murder is a good thing.
AJ apparently = Schiff. When Trump will not actually become the demon the left wants him to be, they will simply PRETEND he is, then scream at the sky because he is such a demon. If Trump won’t say the things that justifies their idiotic, mindless hatred, then they will just imagine he says it, THEN hate him. Yes, folks… these people are actually allowed to vote and drive cars.
Morons. Utter, remorseless, unrepentant morons.
@Deplorable Me:
My obsessive stalking friend, Trump just freed 1000s of ISIS terrorist and ok’d the genocide of an ally which happens to benefit Putin and you still genuflect in lockstep.
And you’re still too blind to get it.
@Ronald J. Ward: No, he didn’t. And, while you are at it, why don’t you provide the citation that has those quotes you attributed to Trump and Dr. John. Failure to do so on the very next post will confirm that you are the lowest liar and incapable of relying on facts to make a point.
Had Obama not created the growth culture for ISIS to grown 4400%, there would be no ISIS in Syria, where Obama dragged us into a civil war in which we had no business being involved. So, actually, OBAMA released the ISIS prisoners.
Oh, I didn’t stalk you… YOU stalked ME. I merely commented on the tendency to lie among lying liberals. Now, if you don’t want to be an example of a despicable liar, don’t BE one.
@Deplorable Me:
RJW-Trump just freed 1000s of ISIS terrorist and ok’d the genocide of an ally.
DM- No he didn’t.
Here we go again.
@Ronald J. Ward: So, you admit you are a liar. Well, to be honest, I already knew.
@Deplorable Me: I see you are keeping the trolls fed in my brief absence.
When the trolls like AJ and Schiff do this its called Parody, then Pelosi insists it was what was in a transcript. They are all a herd of mental defects.
Meanwhile back at the ranch Trump is tracking down the treasonous factions, I hope to see them swing someday. The attempted coup marches on.
RJW-Trump just freed 1000s of ISIS terrorist and ok’d the genocide of an ally. Hundreds of Women and children of terrorists escaped we should have gunned them down?
@kitt: Yeah, remember when RJW and the other liberals were outraged when Obama was killing civilians with drones?
@Deplorable Me:
Your comment calls for a revision.
Trump: Democrats are now saying I murdered someone.
Dr. John: Lying Democrats say Trump murdered.
Trump: I did murder.
Dr. John: Lying Democrats claim the death wasn’t an accident.
Trump: I murdered on purpose.
Dr. John: Sometimes, murder is justified.
Trump: it was cold blooded, unnesasary, and I plan to murder again.
Dr. John: Obviously, murder is a good thing.
Dr. John and entire FA cast- But, but, OBAMAAAAAA!!!!!!
@Ronald J. Ward: You are sooo adorable, it isnt just us dearie…
You must trust the IC agencies right? well heres a quote for you.
CLAPPER: It’s kind of disconcerting now to be investigated for, you know having done our duty and done what we were told to do by the president.
Reference…spygate.
Ronald J. Ward: I am so upset Hillary lost.
Ajay: Yeah, me too. She was going to continue Obama’s march towards socialism.
Ronald J. Ward: Even though her entire political career is smeared with corruption,
I don’t really care. All I care about is liberalism.
Ajay: Me either. I just care that she’s a liberal, promising a lot of things she can
never deliver. Even though she lies about everything, I still believe she’s not
lying to ME.
Ronald J. Ward: Because we liberals are so intellectually superior, we don’t have
to care about how corrupt our leaders are. We only care about
using corruption, racism, lies and failure as a political weapon.
We’re too smart to be taken advantage of by corrupt, lying
thieves that take advantage of the entire country.
Ajay: Yeah, we’re too smart. Aren’t we?
Ronald J. Ward: Yeah, we’re too smart. I think. Wait, let me read the NYT and
watch some CNN to make sure. Yep, just as I thought. We’re too
smart. They say Trump is bad. He sure is bad, isn’t he?
Ajay: He sure is. What does he do that is so bad?
Ronald J. Ward: I don’t know, but they say he is, so let’s tell other people that he
is and then, when people question us and expect us to provide
the basis of our beliefs, we’ll just ignore the questions and think
they’ll just go away and forget they asked us. Because we are
smarter.
Ajay: Yeah. We’re smarter.
@Ronald J. Ward: More drama than Schiff’s “parody.” This is all you have to explain away the constantly changing goal posts?
@Lisa: You have to understand that liberals like Ward (AJ) fully embrace lies as long as they are THEIR lies. Truth, facts, laws, justice or the Constitution has no meaning to them unless it can be manipulated to their purposes.
@Ronald J. Ward: You are exaggerating. Trump left the imprisoned he helped catch, with another army. He spoke with Turkey and recieved comittment citizens would be ok. Neither of those, in my estimation were good choices, but we can also drag up the bad and deceitful choices other Presidents have made, starting with O.
Are you saying that because of his performance, the Dems should be allowed to operate by changing the rules, lieing to Congress and the public, and orchestrate thier created stories to denegrate our president and keep the elitists such as yourself in an honest, morally righteous position? Not really. You are just trying to pile more BS on top of the trash heap known as “The Dems hate Trump.”
I want to ask why you feel you are superior to millions and millions of fellow citizens?
@Ronald J. Ward: You are exaggerating. Trump left the imprisoned he helped catch, with another army. He spoke with Turkey and recieved comittment citizens would be ok. Neither of those, in my estimation were good choices, but we can also drag up the bad and deceitful choices other President’s have made, starting with O.
Are you saying that because of his performance, the Dems should be allowed to operate by changing the rules, lieing to Congress and the public, and orchestrate thier created stories to denegrate our president and keep the elitists such as yourself in an honest, morally righteous position? Not really. You are just trying to pile more BS on top of the trash heap known as “The Dems hate Trump.”
I want to ask why you feel you are superior to millions and millions of fellow citizens? @Ronald J. Ward: You can’t be serious. I have listened to the majority of Dems not even attempt to answer an unrelated question, go directly to Trump.
So, are you saying Dems are allowed to try to UNSEAT the President we voted for, but don’t mention any of yours? That certainly rings familiar in this comedy of “We count and you don’t.” The reason we aren’t to question Dem’s performances, I guess, is because it’s not pertinent to YOUR interests. If Pence were president and not Trump, then what? Or if Huckabee, or any other Conservative were president, would you be ok with that? What happens if another Dem wins presidency but refuses to follow O’s and UN’s and HRC’s path, which happens to be all in the back of the Bible if you wanna see what happens. Your nonstop critisisms of Trump is just a symptom to the big picture of the vision of the UN. Knowing you would treat any conservative president the same way lessens your disgust and intolerance of Trump. It will only continue with another actor in place.
And you guys are out of touch enough to think you’re gonna disarm us. I pray we get out of the UN.
@Deplorable Me:
Ah! I see! So what will they say and do if the four being criminally investigated by the ALSO illigitimate (they say) AG Barr and Durham, actually start making arrests? My plans are a party. Will they continue to claim illigitimacy while the four rest in jail?
And they won’t answer. What makes them think they are superior to millions and millions of other citizens?
@Lisa:
Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Although the exact cause is unknown, NPD is often associated with the individual’s upbringing. It is characterized by an increased sense of self-importance and excessive urge for admiration. The individual has trouble taking criticism and looks down on others with a socially distressing behavior. Psychotherapy is the main mode of treatment I prefer jail time.
Having this disorder or catering to it seems to be a prerequisite to climb in our government certainly not qualifications and job performance.