Quote (thundercock @ Oct 2 2019 01:35pm)
Didn't the whistleblower go through two separate channels? The whistleblowing as well as the CIA's legal counsel?
You're making it seem like the whistleblower went to Schiff when it was the CIA's legal counsel who did..
read again:
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The C.I.A. officer approached a House Intelligence Committee aide with his concerns about Mr. Trump only after he had had a colleague first convey them to the C.I.A.’s top lawyer. Concerned about how that initial avenue for airing his allegations through the C.I.A. was unfolding, the officer then approached the House aide. In both cases, the original accusation was vague.
The House staff member, following the committee’s procedures, suggested the officer find a lawyer to advise him and file a whistle-blower complaint. The aide shared some of what the officer conveyed to Mr. Schiff. The aide did not share the whistle-blower’s identity with Mr. Schiff, an official said.
This is the important bit.
The CIA officer went to the CIA counsel first, but he also went to Adam Schiff's office- not the CIA counsel, the whistleblower did it, he's the "officer" here- and then Schiff's office directed him to get a lawyer and file the whistleblower complaint.
Or in other words, the house democrats helped orchestrate this, setting up the very whistleblower complaint that they then cited as cause to open impeachment proceedings without identifying their own role in setting it up.