I recently had the opportunity to talk to Congressman Adam Bennett Schiff, pursuing the interview because it is important to get an unfiltered response directly from a politician regarding their official policy on whistleblowers, and he graciously accepted my invitation to state his position.

Adam Bennett Schiff was born on June 22, 1960 in Framingham, Massachusetts. His family was Jewish and moved to Scottsdale, Arizona in 1970, and then to Alamo, California in 1972. His mother “came from a long line of Republicans and his father, from a long line of Democrats.” His parents had a strong sense of right and wrong, and they passed those qualities to their son. Congressman Schiff admits “that was the formative backdrop for the last few years for me.”

An interesting fact about Congressman Schiff is that he was the class valedictorian at Danville, California’s Monte Vista High School and also voted “most likely to succeed.” His life path took him to Stanford University and then to Harvard Law School where he graduated cum laude. There is ample evidence that Congressman Schiff was brilliant academically, but what speaks about his soul is the fact that fifty years after he was involved in a bullying incident in elementary school, he can still feel the shame.

Only an individual with brilliance, decency, and compassion could have drafted and delivered the closing remarks in a Senate impeachment trial on February 3, 2020, where artfully crafted statements like “your name will be...

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