its obvious that whomever this person is, they are trying to buy cover by declaring themselves a whistleblower to avoid an investigation and possible prosecution. the Dems will be going to bat for this person big time. Hopefully the FBI knows who this is, and is obtaining all their cellphone, telephone and email records to see if the NYT and/or the DNC is on the other end of any of it.
From your lips... unfortunately the FBI and Justice still have too many enemies of the state in their ranks and may be gun shy about this issue. NSA will probably be hung out to dry just like CIA in the 70s.