JOHN KASS: The ‘Whistleblower’ and Rep. Adam Schiff should be first to testify in Trump Impeachment Theater.

Is the whistleblower a heroic patriot fighting against overwhelming odds to save the republic, as Democrats insist?

Or is he a Democratic operative and pajama-boy tool of former CIA boss and Trump loather John Brennan, as Republicans have alleged?

Who is he? What’s his name? Does he have allies on Schiff’s committee? Why is he doing this?

When you hold hearings to take out a president, you want to know how it all began, don’t you?

You might want to read the fascinating and important piece in RealClearInvestigations by Paul Sperry. It discusses the “whistleblower” in detail.

If you don’t want to read it, then please just admit that all you want is just another steaming platter of “Orange Man Bad” analysis.

After the whistleblower is questioned about Brennan and who he met in Schiff’s committee and whether he was indeed booted out of the White House for partisan leaking, as alleged in the RealClearInvestigations story, then Schiff should take the stand.

And Schiff should testify, under oath, about how all this was orchestrated and what he did and whether he told the whole truth.

If the whistleblower is not compelled to testify under oath, Democrats risk a self-inflicted wound. And wounds become dangerous when infected in a swamp.

Read the whole thing.

Flashback: ‘Watergate’ Doesn’t Mean What the Press Thinks It Means.