Should the identity of the CIA whistleblower in Ukrainegate be revealed?

Donald Trump is desperate to know the identity of the CIA whistleblower who made a formal complaint about what he or she heard when the president made a phone call in July to President Zelensky, the Ukrainian leader, and asked him to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter. These must be terrifying days for this CIA intelligence analyst. He/she was so shocked by the implications of that phone call which I assume he/she either listened to as part of the job or had a full transcript of the conversation that he/she felt it was important to pursue the matter to the correct authorities. First this individual went to the CIA legal counsel to seek guidance but extraordinarily the intelligence service counsel contacted a lawyer in the White House to ask his opinion. Why on earth did he do that, immediately spilling the beans to the administration that there was trouble ahead? The would-be whistleblower became uncomfortable that his/her reservations about the lawfulness of the Trump phone call to a foreign leader were not being given proper weight. Indeed not being properly handled. So he/she then made his/her complaint to the inspector-general of the intelligence services. The formal complaint was leaked. That in itself is seriously worrying for any intelligence officer who feels it is his/her duty to raise issues of propriety against the president of the United States. Now we have a Democrat-run impeachment inquiry and already the inspector-general of the intelligence services, one Michael Atkinson, has been summoned to give evidence to the House Intelligence Committee in a closed session. Will Atkinson come under pressure to reveal the name of the whistleblower? Will he give in to the pressure and provide the name? Will the name then be leaked to The New York Times or Washington Post or to the White House? Will he or she then be villified by Trump and the White House as a Democrat-supporting traitor? Yes, this will be a worrying time for the whistleblower. There is no question in my mind that the identity of this intelligence analyst has to remain secret and must never be leaked. Atkinson and the CIA as a whole have a duty to protect this individual. Otherwise the whole system under which intelligence officers have a right to raise concerns about suspected acts of impropriety will collapse. I do not imagine for a moment that this individual made his/her complaint because he/she is a paid-up member of the Democratic party and thought it would be a great way of embarrassing the president. The intelligence officers I have come across on both sides of the Atlantic in my time as Defence Editor and Pentagon Correspondent for The Times I consider to be dedicated to their profession and patriots. If this CIA analyst felt it was necessary to raise concerns about that July phone call, it would have been for professional, not for political, reasons. If his/her name does come out it will be an outrage and will have far-reaching repercussions for the whole of the US intelligence community.