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^^ ABTW, not a lot of people are buying into the notion that the whistleblower report just dropped into Schiff's lap. There are those nagging reports coming from the likes of Devin Nunes, Kevin McCarthy, Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan et-al, which both question whether a member of the President's intel corps can even qualify as a whistleblower, and of his (Schiff's) involvement in the drafting of the report in the first place. It's hard to format and ghostwrite a whistleblower report, and then claim it sort of dropped into one's lap; isn't it?

The whistleblower went to Schiff early on; I call that dropping in his lap. I’m not sure anyone could ever prove if Schiff or his staffers typed the report. They deny it saying they directed the whistleblower to get a lawyer and follow procedure. It doesn’t seem the facts change either way, but Schiff possibly should have recused himself in hindsight. Politicians never do that.

Intel officers can be whistleblowers they just have a few more hoops to go through and according to the administration’s DNI this whistleblower followed the process.

These arguments seem to try to sidestep the matter at hand.