CBS News reporter’s source says there’s a major error in the whistleblower complaint

Keep in mind here that we’re dealing with an unnamed source, but CBS News State Department and foreign affairs reporter Christina Ruffini is reporting that, according to a senior government official, Counselor of the United States Department of State Ulrich Brechbuhl was not on the phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as the unclassified whistleblower complaint states.

Christina Ruffini

✔@EenaRuffini

Scoop: Senior Govt Official tells @CBSNews Counselor to the State Department Ulrich Brechbuhl was NOT on the @POTUS call with #Zelensky, as the whistle blower complaint states.

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1:11 AM - Sep 27, 2019

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If true, it’s a major error and puts a big crack in the whistleblower’s credibility. Keep in mind that the whistleblower wasn’t on the call either and got all of his or her

https://twitter.com/El__Bohemio/status/1177334829785989120 information second- or third-hand.

Ed Oxbow@Carmard

Replying to @EenaRuffini and 2 others

Is this implying that the leaker was fed bad intel or is the concocted story all BS?

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2:50 AM - Sep 27, 2019

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Ryan Saavedra

✔@RealSaavedra

Oh look, the whistleblower complaint contained lies: https://twitter.com/EenaRuffini/status/1177307225024544768 …

Christina Ruffini

✔@EenaRuffini

Scoop: Senior Govt Official tells @CBSNews Counselor to the State Department Ulrich Brechbuhl was NOT on the @POTUS call with #Zelensky, as the whistle blower complaint states.

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RealTalK@SmallAxe2016

Replying to @QuipShot @AdamBaldwin

Fraud whistleblower couldn't even get THIS DETAIL CORRECT. So much for MASSIVELY DETAILED. https://twitter.com/EenaRuffini/status/1177307225024544768 …

Christina Ruffini

✔@EenaRuffini

Scoop: Senior Govt Official tells @CBSNews Counselor to the State Department Ulrich Brechbuhl was NOT on the @POTUS call with #Zelensky, as the whistle blower complaint states.

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English Fox@lonefoxgeezer

Oh. Well, that doesn't seem right. Does that mean it's a lie? How can we believe any of these claims now? https://twitter.com/EenaRuffini/status/1177307225024544768 …

Christina Ruffini

✔@EenaRuffini

Scoop: Senior Govt Official tells @CBSNews Counselor to the State Department Ulrich Brechbuhl was NOT on the @POTUS call with #Zelensky, as the whistle blower complaint states.

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Dan McLaughlin

✔@baseballcrank

First direct pushback here against the accuracy of the memo (other than discrepancies between the readout & its description), but is anyone on the record on this? https://twitter.com/EenaRuffini/status/1177307225024544768 …

Christina Ruffini

✔@EenaRuffini

Scoop: Senior Govt Official tells @CBSNews Counselor to the State Department Ulrich Brechbuhl was NOT on the @POTUS call with #Zelensky, as the whistle blower complaint states.

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3:00 AM - Sep 27, 2019

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David Martosko

✔@dmartosko

Hiccup. https://twitter.com/EenaRuffini/status/1177307225024544768 …

Christina Ruffini

✔@EenaRuffini

Scoop: Senior Govt Official tells @CBSNews Counselor to the State Department Ulrich Brechbuhl was NOT on the @POTUS call with #Zelensky, as the whistle blower complaint states.

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3:06 AM - Sep 27, 2019

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Langdale.ca@laangled

Mike Rogers just said how the IC didn't really investigate the allegations, that the Democrats are too confident. https://twitter.com/EenaRuffini/status/1177307225024544768 …

Christina Ruffini

✔@EenaRuffini

Scoop: Senior Govt Official tells @CBSNews Counselor to the State Department Ulrich Brechbuhl was NOT on the @POTUS call with #Zelensky, as the whistle blower complaint states.

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J.J. by the Bay@flagg_colonel

If you're going to the mat on accusing the President of an impeachable offense, you damn well better not make one single slip up. https://twitter.com/EenaRuffini/status/1177307225024544768 …

Christina Ruffini

✔@EenaRuffini

Scoop: Senior Govt Official tells @CBSNews Counselor to the State Department Ulrich Brechbuhl was NOT on the @POTUS call with #Zelensky, as the whistle blower complaint states.

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Chris M@cmultrading

Uh oh...its falling apart already. https://twitter.com/EenaRuffini/status/1177307225024544768 …

Christina Ruffini

✔@EenaRuffini

Scoop: Senior Govt Official tells @CBSNews Counselor to the State Department Ulrich Brechbuhl was NOT on the @POTUS call with #Zelensky, as the whistle blower complaint states.

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Kevin Tierney@CatholicSmark

Reminder that the whistleblower did not hear the conversation, and their recollection was a recollection from someone else.

That was the problem with treating the complaint as sacrosanct https://twitter.com/EenaRuffini/status/1177307225024544768 …

Christina Ruffini

✔@EenaRuffini

Scoop: Senior Govt Official tells @CBSNews Counselor to the State Department Ulrich Brechbuhl was NOT on the @POTUS call with #Zelensky, as the whistle blower complaint states.

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JRB@jrbflyersfan

Looks like Adam Schiff is a worse writer than Ben Rhodes, fellas, if you are going to do grand narratives, you need to get your characters straight! https://twitter.com/EenaRuffini/status/1177307225024544768 …

Christina Ruffini

✔@EenaRuffini

Scoop: Senior Govt Official tells @CBSNews Counselor to the State Department Ulrich Brechbuhl was NOT on the @POTUS call with #Zelensky, as the whistle blower complaint states.

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3:14 AM - Sep 27, 2019

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Federal Spy Guy@FederalSpyGuy

well shit - looks like the "whistleblower" was *FED* bad intel ........... https://twitter.com/EenaRuffini/status/1177307225024544768 …

Christina Ruffini

✔@EenaRuffini

Scoop: Senior Govt Official tells @CBSNews Counselor to the State Department Ulrich Brechbuhl was NOT on the @POTUS call with #Zelensky, as the whistle blower complaint states.

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Jerry Fletcher@guntotingteabag

Replying to @gmbosslady64 and 2 others

its already falling apart, cupcake.

This is now the second lie, the first one belongs to Schiff. https://twitter.com/EenaRuffini/status/1177307225024544768 …

Christina Ruffini

✔@EenaRuffini

Scoop: Senior Govt Official tells @CBSNews Counselor to the State Department Ulrich Brechbuhl was NOT on the @POTUS call with #Zelensky, as the whistle blower complaint states.

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WE4OU @ECW4OU

Poor @RepAdamSchiff. https://twitter.com/EenaRuffini/status/1177307225024544768 …

Christina Ruffini

✔@EenaRuffini

Scoop: Senior Govt Official tells @CBSNews Counselor to the State Department Ulrich Brechbuhl was NOT on the @POTUS call with #Zelensky, as the whistle blower complaint states.

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SpiffTheSpaceMan@SpiffDSpaceman

Cant even get the details right. But for sure he knows what happened on that call https://twitter.com/EenaRuffini/status/1177307225024544768 …

Christina Ruffini

✔@EenaRuffini

Scoop: Senior Govt Official tells @CBSNews Counselor to the State Department Ulrich Brechbuhl was NOT on the @POTUS call with #Zelensky, as the whistle blower complaint states.

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3:39 AM - Sep 27, 2019

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Kevin Wells@Luckydogguy

Replying to @EenaRuffini and 2 others

Is there such a thing as 4th hand knowledge?

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Rising serpent@rising_serpent

This is eerily reminiscent of the Steele dossier in which Michael Cohen was said to be in Prague when Cohen had never been to Prague. https://twitter.com/EenaRuffini/status/1177307225024544768 …

Christina Ruffini

✔@EenaRuffini

Scoop: Senior Govt Official tells @CBSNews Counselor to the State Department Ulrich Brechbuhl was NOT on the @POTUS call with #Zelensky, as the whistle blower complaint states.

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3:09 AM - Sep 27, 2019

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Billy Swagspeare@bswagspeare

Another day, another anti-Trump story revealed as Fake News. https://twitter.com/EenaRuffini/status/1177307225024544768 …

Christina Ruffini

✔@EenaRuffini

Scoop: Senior Govt Official tells @CBSNews Counselor to the State Department Ulrich Brechbuhl was NOT on the @POTUS call with #Zelensky, as the whistle blower complaint states.

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Bohemio@El__Bohemio

This is unraveling quickly. https://twitter.com/EenaRuffini/status/1177307225024544768 …

Christina Ruffini

✔@EenaRuffini

Scoop: Senior Govt Official tells @CBSNews Counselor to the State Department Ulrich Brechbuhl was NOT on the @POTUS call with #Zelensky, as the whistle blower complaint states.

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Abraham Woodhull@politiwars

SEEMS KIND OF IMPORTANT https://twitter.com/EenaRuffini/status/1177307225024544768 …

Christina Ruffini

✔@EenaRuffini

Scoop: Senior Govt Official tells @CBSNews Counselor to the State Department Ulrich Brechbuhl was NOT on the @POTUS call with #Zelensky, as the whistle blower complaint states.

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Kyle@HNIJohnMiller

Replying to @COsweda @realDonaldTrump

https://twitter.com/EenaRuffini/status/1177307225024544768 …

The name of the state department official in the complaint? That official wasn't one of the group listening in, unlike what the whistleblower claimed.

This official was the ONE NAMED WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL in the entire document, as I noted.

Leak marker.

Christina Ruffini

✔@EenaRuffini

Scoop: Senior Govt Official tells @CBSNews Counselor to the State Department Ulrich Brechbuhl was NOT on the @POTUS call with #Zelensky, as the whistle blower complaint states.

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HSJC Sister@Peaches_Sabrina

I am beginning to think this was to smoke out leakers... https://twitter.com/EenaRuffini/status/1177307225024544768 …

Christina Ruffini

✔@EenaRuffini

Scoop: Senior Govt Official tells @CBSNews Counselor to the State Department Ulrich Brechbuhl was NOT on the @POTUS call with #Zelensky, as the whistle blower complaint states.

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UKForUSA@UKForUSA

Replying to @EenaRuffini and 2 others

Need to ask this leaker if he wrote the whole complaint?

This is very stinky indeed.

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Ricky Moser@truckinforu

Replying to @EenaRuffini and 2 others

So now that question becomes; who leaked the confidential call? These conversations are classified. Should be relatively easy to identify the leaker and prosecute them under the espionage act.

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Shay@DeplorableShay

Dossier 2.0 https://twitter.com/EenaRuffini/status/1177307225024544768 …

Christina Ruffini

✔@EenaRuffini

Scoop: Senior Govt Official tells @CBSNews Counselor to the State Department Ulrich Brechbuhl was NOT on the @POTUS call with #Zelensky, as the whistle blower complaint states.

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Tyranny of Dragons@ougrad2001

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