...aren't the folks who are "protecting" the whistleblower the same one who supported the Doxxing people they disagree with online? Information about their families, friends, business, home address, telephone number email id? I believe they call it Doxxing.
doxxing (present participle)
search for and publish private or identifying information about (a particular individual) on the Internet, typically with malicious intent.
"hackers and online vigilantes routinely dox both public and private figures"
...I wonder if the word Doxxing was invented by a guy who played scrabble and was often caught with two x's

Liberals are like a "Slinky". Totally useless, but somehow ya can't help but smile when you see one tumble down a flight of stairs!