There’s a theory floating around the Internet that claims the intelligence community secretly eliminated a whistleblowing requirement just before the Ukraine scandal broke.

The idea is that deep state operatives believed President Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky could damage his presidency, so they changed the rules to make it easier for a whistleblower to come forward by eliminating the legal requirement for first-hand knowledge.

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