(Stillness in the Storm Editor) The Deep State is being exposed at a record pace, so quickly, the public and even alternative media can’t seem to keep up with contextualizing these developments for the public. In the following article, the CIA recently changed rules with respect to whistleblower testimony, removing the imposition to reject claims based on hearsay. Hearsay is effectively a rumor—when someone testifies as to a crime or an event citing another person’s testimony as evidence. Is it not convenient that those looking to oust Trump just so happened to have this rule changed?
From a propaganda and social engineering perspective, accusations of wrongdoing are just as powerful as proof of wrongdoing.
Psychologically, when people are told about wrongdoing, most believe it without proof because it’s risky not to. Think about it.
If a neighbor knocked on your door and said “the guy across the street is a pedophile,” wouldn’t you act as if they were just in case? Even if you didn’t have time to investigate? You might not take actions against them, but in the back of your mind, you’ll believe it’s true to guard against the positivity of it being true.
The Deep State know of this principle. They also know most people lack critical thinking skills, and so even if an accusation is false, many won’t be able to update their beliefs with the truth because they can’t discern things wisely.
What this means is that we’re living in a world of political warfare. The Deep State know that whether or not Trump committed wrongdoing with respect to Ukraine doesn’t matter, if they accuse him publicly, most people will believe it. At least this is what they want to think.
More evidence mounts suggesting that while the Deep State scrambles to smear Trump to prepare for the 2020 election, it isn’t working as expected. Trump is gaining more grassroots support than ever, as evidenced by record-breaking donations seemingly in opposition to the call for impeachment recently.
Trump’s reelection effort has amassed a record-breaking war chest, turning political attacks against the president into peak fundraising moments. (source)
To recap.
The Deep State failed with RussiaGate—no evidence of Russia collusion was ever found, and all evidence points to domestic actors pushing false reports.
The Deep State failed with UkraineGate—no evidence of Trump in a quid pro quo with the Ukrainian Prime minister. Again, as it turns out, evidence suggests the intelligence community manufactured a whistleblower to feed the media false accusations, only to discover just recently, that the whistleblower’s testimony is invalid.
In short, I’d say this is good news if we are to believe that Trump is part of an alliance against the deep state.
– Justin
(Zero Hedge) In the months leading up to a CIA whistleblower’s hearsay complaint about President Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the US intelligence community quietly eliminated a requirement that whistleblowers must provide first-hand knowledge of alleged wrongdoings, according to The Federalist‘s Sean Davis.
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Then, on September 24 – days before the anti-Trump complaint was declassified and released to the public – a new version of the whistleblower complaint form revised in August, 2019 – the Disclosure of Urgent Concern” form – was uploaded and used by the CIA employee to file the complaint.
And while the public just learned about this a week ago, the whistleblower letter to House and Senate Intelligence Committee chairs Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Richard Burr (R-NC) was dated August 12, the same month the form was updated.
The brand new version of the whistleblower complaint form, which was not made public until after the transcript of Trump’s July 25 phone call with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and the complaint addressed to Congress were made public, eliminates the first-hand knowledge requirement and allows employees to file whistleblower complaints even if they have zero direct knowledge of underlying evidence and only “heard about [wrongdoing] from others.”
The internal properties of the newly revised “Disclosure of Urgent Concern” form, which the intelligence community inspector general (ICIG) requires to be submitted under the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act (ICWPA), show that the document was uploaded on September 24, 2019, at 4:25 p.m., just days before the anti-Trump complaint was declassified and released to the public. The markings on the document state that it was revised in August 2019, but no specific date of revision is disclosed. –The Federalist
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A previous version of the document provided by the ICIG and DNI until recently declared that whistleblower complaints must only contain first-hand knowledge of alleged wrongdoing – and made clear that hearsay, gossip or rumor would be rejected.
“The [Intelligence Community Inspector General] cannot transmit information via the ICPWA based on an employee’s second-hand knowledge of wrongdoing,” reads the prior version of the form, which contains the bolded heading: “FIRST-HAND INFORMATION REQUIRED,“ and “This includes information received from another person, such as when an employee informs you that he/she witnessed some type of wrongdoing.”
“If you think that wrongdoing took place, but can provide nothing more than second-hand or unsubstantiated assertions, [the Intelligence Community Inspector General] will not be able to process the complaint or information for submission as an ICWPA,” the form concludes.
Old form:
New form:
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14/ Here is what prior ICIG whistleblower form looked like. Required reporting of an incident – not a long op ed quoting newspaper articles. No softball question about whether sources primary or secondary. pic.twitter.com/r5lqxK0Sga
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And as The Federalist breaks down – “The Ukraine call complaint against Trump is riddled not with evidence directly witnessed by the complainant, but with repeated references to what anonymous officials allegedly told the complainant.”
For example:
“I have received information from multiple U.S. Government officials,” “officials have informed me,” “officials with direct knowledge of the call informed me,” “the White House officials who told me this information,” “I was told by White House officials,” “the officials I spoke with,” “I was told that a State Department official,” “I learned from multiple U.S. officials,” “One White House official described this act,” “Based on multiple readouts of these meetings recounted to me,” “I also learned from multiple U.S. officials,” “The U.S. officials characterized this meeting,” “multiple U.S. officials told me,” “I learned from U.S. officials,” “I also learned from a U.S. official,” “several U.S. officials told me,” “I heard from multiple U.S. officials,” and “multiple U.S. officials told me.” –The Federalist
And if any doubt remains, the CIA employee told Schiff Burr (R-NC) in their August 12 letter; “I was not a direct witness to most of the events,” which is repeated in the actual complaint as: “I was not a witness to most of the events described…”
Meanwhile, the complaint contains several false claims noted by Davis:
While the complaint alleged that Trump demanded that Ukraine physically return multiple servers potentially related to ongoing investigations of foreign interference in the 2016 elections, the transcript of the call between Trump and Zelensky shows that such a request was never made.
The complainant also falsely alleged that Trump told Zelensky that he should keep the current prosecutor general at the time, Yuriy Lutsenko, in his current position in the country. The transcript showed that exchange also did not happen.
Additionally, the complaint falsely alleged that T. Ulrich Brechbuhl, a U.S. State Department official, was a party to the phone call between Trump and Zelensky.
“I was told that a State Department official, Mr. T. Ulrich Brechbuhl, also listened in on the call,” the complaint alleged. Shortly after the complaint was released, CBS News reported that Brechbuhl was not on the phone call. –The Federalist
Following the complaint, the Justice Department (DOJ) and Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) deemed the submission to be statutorily deficient and therefore free from reporting requirements to Congress. Under mounting pressure, however, the White House declassified and released the complaint to Congress on Wednesday evening, hours after they released transcript of the underlying Trump-Zelensky phone call in question which refuted grandiose claims made in mainstream publications such as Trump pressuring Zelensky “about eight times.”
Read the rest of the report here.
Stillness in the Storm Editor: Why did we post this?
The preceding information is a news update. In general, staying informed as to events taking place is essential as an individual because it helps you navigate the world, and socially because you can gain and maintain rapport with your fellows. This rapport can be used to share information that can help others and improve the conditions of humanity in general. However, one must learn how to exercise discernment and proper critical thinking so they can make effective use of information gained.
– Justin
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All these false claims being made against trump over the last 3 years and the cost of so called investigations, like the russiagate BS, 230 million or something like that, all goes down to the tax payer to cough up,and those making these claims do well out of their lies, how about if found to be a false claims, the people making those false claims are made to pay all the cost, seems only fair to me. or better still imprisoned and property and asset forfeiture as well.
That may make them think on a bit before lying to us all.