Whistle-Blower’s Complaint Is Said to Involve Multiple Acts by Trump

[Dill]

(11-11-2019, 04:42 PM)6andcounting Wrote: The people he cited (although in most of the instances he doesn't name specific people and just says "an official" or something similar) had "direct knowledge" of the info, but the whistleblower himself did not have "direct knowledge" of the info - according to his own statement to start of the report. That makes what the whistleblower had 2nd hand information.

My friend Bob has direct knowledge of WWII as he fought in the war. Bob tells me a personal war story. Is the info contained in his war story my "direct knowledge" or 2nd hand info?

I tend to agree with your definition of "2nd hand," 6.

What do you make of transcripts and other documents created to record what happened on calls to foreign leaders? Would someone with access and referring to such documents have 2nd hand knowledge?