In coordination with Politico, House Democrats Elijah Cummings and Eliot Engel delivered an open letter to the White House and State Department, which begins:
Note that finish: " ... despite the career employees expressing willingness to support the policy priorities of the Trump Administration." The whistleblower is not named, but the remainder of the open letter focuses on one Sahar Nowrouzzadeh:
The "conservative news outlet" referred to is Conservative Review; Jordan Schachtel had published an article titled: "Iran Deal Architect Is Running Tehran Policy at the State Dept." Indeed, as Schachtel had written, Nowrouzzadeh had been "the Iran director for former President Obama’s National Security Council."