My God -- you mean the whistleblower contacted the appropriate Congressional oversight committee about his national security concerns!?
Next you'll be telling me that the whistleblower followed the exact procedures laid out in US law, and that Inspector General found his complaint "credible" or some nonsense like that!
Except the bar for "whistleblower" complaints was lowered days before the complaint was filed - from "first-person knowledge" to "I heard around the water cooler," and posted publicly only last week.
False.
From right wing website The Resurgent:
“Intelligence Inspector General Says Whistleblower Used the 2018 Form and Had Firsthand Information”
https://theresurgent.com/2019/09/30/intelligence-inspector-general-says-whistleblower-used-the-2018-form-and-had-firsthand-information/
False.
"At the time the Complainant filed the Disclosure of Urgent Concern form with the ICIG
on August 12, 2019, the ICIG followed its routine practice and provided the Complainant
information, including “Background Information on ICWPA Process,” which included the
following language:
In order to find an urgent concern “credible,” the IC IG must be in
possession of reliable, first-hand information. The IC IG cannot transmit
information via the ICWPA based on an employee’s second-hand
knowledge of wrongdoing. This includes information received from
another person, such as when a fellow employee informs you that he/she
witnessed some type of wrongdoing. (Anyone with first-hand knowledge
of the allegations may file a disclosure in writing directly with the IC IG.)
Similarly, speculation about the existence of wrongdoing does not provide
sufficient basis to meet the statutory requirements of the ICWPA. If you
think wrongdoing took place, but can provide nothing more than secondhand or unsubstantiated assertions, IC IG will not be able to process the
complaint or information for submission as an ICWPA."
https://www.dni.gov/files/ICIG/Documents/News/ICIG%20News/2019/September%2030%20-%20Statement%20on%20Processing%20of%20Whistleblower%20Complaints/ICIG%20Statement%20on%20Processing%20of%20Whistleblower%20Complaints.pdf