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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/27/intel-community-secretly-gutted-requirement-of-first-hand-whistleblower-knowledge/

So, rules applying to whistleblowers in IC were just revised.  How convenient.

https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/27/intel-community-secretly-gutted-requirement-of-first-hand-whistleblower-knowledge/[/quote]

This is odd.  And, this tweet  from the reporter.....

Sean Davis
@seanmdav
[b]I talked to a DNI official and asked when these revisions were made and why. The official said the intelligence community would not comment on anything to do with the anti-Trump whistleblower.

I never mentioned or asked about the anti-Trump whistleblower.[/b][/quote]

In other words, this "reporter" isn't nearly as clever as he thinks he is, and the DNI official was smart enough to know what he was fishing for.  [/quote]

??? Everyone knows they cannot talk about the whistleblower.  But, to not say when the policy was revised?  Why does that have anything to do with the whistleblower?  
[/quote]

It's painfully obvious that the question is trying to get at whether the policy was just changed for this whistleblower.  Even if it wasn't though, as soon as the official answers any questions on the topic (even if the reporter thinks he's being very clever by not specifically referencing the whistleblower), people will read any subsequent refusal to answer a question about the whistleblower as implying the answer is damning.  Therefore, it's safer not to answer any, because then there's no principled basis to read into a refusal to answer.[/quote]

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