Awfully similar MO to that time Christine Blassey Ford contacted Diane Feinstein before spewing false claims about Kavanaugh to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Dollars to donuts, Schiff and/or his staff helped:
1) “solve” the problem of the ICIG requiring first hand information to construe a whistleblower complaint credible. So they set to work changing the form. Every aspect of that change, every communication, etc., needs to be forced into the light, all persons deposed under oath, etc.
2) hooking the “whistleblower” up with an approved Lawfare attorney.
A good point, I agree