Am I wrong, but as a CIA officer he does not need the Whistleblower protection that a rank-in-file employee does? He’s not an employee of Oval Office. the He could just process the complaint through the CIA.
What complaint? He is not complaining about wrongdoing by an intelligence officer. He is complaining about the President's conduct of foreign policy by leaking the President's conversations with the head of a foreign country, which is classified about 10 different ways.