[Swordmaker]

This legal counsel opinion was transmitted to the DNI and the Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson on September 3, 2019, three days before he went ahead and transmitted the complaint to Chairmen Schiff and Burr of the House and Senate Intelligence Oversight Committees, despite being told both he and they had no justifiable legal jurisdiction.

This was also paralleled by a similar opinion from the career legal counsels in the DOJ.

One interesting reported fact is that is that ICIG Atkinson’s transmittal letter to the oversight committees, which included his complaints about the handling by the DNI who had yet to take office, had meta data showing it was created on August 12, 2019, the same day he reportedly received the original complaint, two weeks before he sent said complaint to the DNI, and three weeks before the DNI’s statutory deadline for action. How is that possible unless this was all scripted and prepared in advance?

[ctdonath2]

Ah, September 3. Not today-ish.

Too foggy to follow the metadata map, but trust it doesn’t bode well for Schiff et al.

Might explain the weasel-wording surrounding declarations of “impeachment” terminology.

[JWNM]

The ICIG has yet to be adequately questioned on why the whistleblower form was modified and backdated to allow for second-hand reporting.