Whistleblower painstakingly gathered material and almost single-handedly set impeachment in motion washingtonpost.com

Trump said the whistleblower is “almost a spy.” Others said, “He’ll be remembered as a truth-seeker.”
The whistleblower’s identity remains obscured, the details of his work for the CIA cloaked in secrecy. But the document he delivered reveals almost as much about the investigative mission he carried out in stealth as it does about the alleged abuses of power by the president.From the moment he learned about President Trump’s attempts to extract political dirt on former vice president Joe Biden from the newly elected leader of Ukraine on July 25, the CIA officer behind the whistleblower report moved swiftly behind the scenes to assemble material from at least a half-dozen highly placed — and equally dismayed