“The whistleblower went to an intel committee staffer with a vague account of the complaint,”
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IOW, he first went to Congress with the complaint. Does that remove his whistleblower protection?
It makes zero sense he would go to Congress as a member of the executive branch with “vague account of the complaint” and then just be told to go back to the executive branch without any further collaboration - indeed it makes zero sense he would have gone there to begin with.
This “fact check” flies if the face of reality.