Why is Adam Schiff hiding the "whistleblower"?

Everyone in DC knows who the "whistleblower" is.

But Democrats are desperate to keep his identity secret.

They claim there are threats on his life but that's no reason to hide him. After all if he were testifying against a mob boss his identity would have to be made public because in America we don't base legal decisions on anonymous sources.

Further given the lack of violence on the right compared to the extensive support of violence by mainstream Democrats--throwing Republicans out of public places and turning a blind eye to Antifa's violence-- saying that those who support the President must be identified but the man who started the whole impeachment lie can remain anonymous is absurd.

There are multiple reasons that the Democrats are desperate to keep the "whistleblower's" identity secret:

• Adam Schiff lied about meeting the "whistleblower" prior to the complaint being filed. It's now known that people working for him, and likely he himself, helped the "whistleblower" write and submit his complaint.  Schiff is desperate to keep we the people from finding out that the whole "whistleblower" story was a lie he orchestrated
• Schiff is desperate to keep we the people from finding out that the "whistleblower" is a personal friend of Joe Biden's who worked with Joe on Ukraine policy while Hunter was making a fortune off off of what Joe was doing
• Schiff is desperate to keep we the people from knowing that the "whistleblower" is a hard core Democrat partisan who was fired from the White House for leaking to the press in order to hurt Trump
• Schiff is desperate to keep the people from knowing that the "whistleblower" was overheard immediately after Trump took office talking to someone about how they could get Trump thrown out of office
• Schiff is desperate to keep we the people from finding out that the person the "whistleblower" was talking to was hired by Schiff for his staff

Imagine if you were accused of a crime but the prosecutor said that because you might attack your accuser your accuser wouldn't have to testify against you and you wouldn't be given a chance to ask him questions that would show that he was lying.  How unjust would that be?

Yet that's precisely what Adam Schiff is demanding to be able to do to the President that the American people voted for.