In an interview...check this out...
Sam Stein: “Have you heard from the whistleblower? Do you want to hear from the whistleblower? What protections could you provide to the whistleblower?” …
Schiff: “We have not spoken directly with the whistleblower. We would like to. But I am sure the whistleblower has concerns that he has not been advised, as the law requires, by the inspector general or the director of national Intelligence just how he is supposed to communicate with Congress, and so the risk to the whistleblower is retaliation.”
Unless Adam SCIF is a mind reader, this sure looks like he intimately knows the concerns of the whistleblower, who now is known to be a political operative buried in the deep State bureaucracy -- and covering his partisan ass.