National intelligence inspector general Michael Atkinson debunked a GOP conspiracy theory about the whistle-blower
National intelligence inspector general Michael Atkinson, right, leaves a closed intelligence briefing Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP/Shutterstock Last Thursday, Sean Davis of the conservative news site The Federalist broke an explosive revelation. The Intelligence Community had secretly changed a requirement in its whistle-blower statute to allow whistle-blowers to report secondhand allegations, whereas firsthand knowledge had been required before.
They had answers. They just didn’t like them. Actual experts in intelligence law immediately pointed out that Davis’s reporting was false and was based on a simple misreading of a change in the wording of a form. Third, Atkinson noted that the entire issue is moot because the Trump whistle-blower did have firsthand knowledge. So no, the law was not changed to allow complaints without firsthand knowledge. And no, this wouldn’t have mattered anyway, because the whistle-blower did have firsthand knowledge.
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