Where are y'all on the NYT publishing this? Their comments section is chock full of people criticizing the decision, and I'm inclined to agree. Seems just to endanger the whistleblower without revealing too much important info--it's not like those who've been chanting "POLITICAL HACK" will be convinced of the complaint's legitimacy just because the whistleblower works for the deep state or whatever.
Twitter has pointed out that at the Washington Post, it's Watergate all over again while the New York Times appears doomed to repeat the runup to the Iraq War. I'm vain; I cancelled my New York Times subscription because their Style section ran a really bitchy thing about Generation X and then signed up for the Washington Post because a childhood friend is now on staff. But maaaan. The NYT has been doing some excessively dumb shit of late.
Maybe you heard this already, but the justification was that the White House already knew that the individual was CIA, but I still worry that a simple analysis by not-dumb people can be usurped by the Trump administration to fill in gaps that they were too stupid to resolve themselves.