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Officials that the allegations were based on second hand accounts. the whistleblower had an urgent concern form in august 2019 and used by the icig since may 24th, 2018. the whistleblower stated on the form he or she possessed both firsthand and other information. house republicans asked the intelligence community wash dog to preserve records documenting the process and requesting them before michael atkinson appears before the house intelligence committee friday in a non-public testimony. >> come thursday if he doesn't provide the actual evidence all the communications we'll see him on friday...

Allies to smear the unnamed whistle-blower. several republicans have amplified a right-wing conspiracy theory tweeted in all caps by donald trump claiming falsely that immediately before the complaint in question was filed, the intelligence community changed the rules requiring whistle-blowers to have firsthand knowledge of the events they report. in a rare rebuttal, the office of the intelligence community's inspector general says, sorry, that is not true. from that rare response, "the disclosure of urgent concern from the complaint submitted august 12th, 2019, is the same form the intelligen...

Changed, so the statute always allowed secondhand information. but what the statute requires is for the ig to make a determination about credibility and whether something raises what they call, and urgent concern under the statute. >> government official said that the watchdog has independent authority to administer the program including changes to the complaint form, fox news reached out to the ic ig press conference in the last few minutes we received a statement "the whistle-blower submitted the appropriate disclosure of immediate concern form that was in effect as of august 12, 2019, and h...