As the transcript of his phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky shows, President Trump was attempting to expose alleged wrongdoing by former Vice President Biden, his son, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and others. This means President Trump is a whistleblower --and the so-called "Whistleblower" acted as a spy.

As the Schiff impeachment saga continues, I'm reminded of my encounter with "Whistleblower" attorney Mark Zaid, of WhistleblowerAid.

I had a very strange interview with him for a book about my own Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case: Jarvik v CIA in April, 2010 at a suburban Washington Hamburger Hamlet.

A suspicious man at the next table interrupted our conversation and warned me to keep my voice down -- which I found threatening, not to mention rude. In the end, I didn't publish because I never got the documents, since my case was dismissed on procedural grounds prior to trial. But I remembered the meeting.

Zaid impressed me as extremely knowledgeable about FOIA and whistleblower protection laws. And his nonprofit's website shows WhistleblowerAid founder John Napier Tye is himself a whistleblower, who headed the State Department's Internet Freedom Section in the Obama administration -- before exposing NSA spying on American email and phone calls routed abroad, under Executive Order 12333.

In a December, 2014 TED Talk, Napier explained US intelligence agencies conduct incidental data collection on millions of Americans, saying, "none of us would ever know they do allow the NSA to share this data with the FBI and it's being used to prosecute Americans" and "they're sending raw transcripts of Americans communications to the government of Israel to the government of the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand."

Tye detailed how communication data was stored around the country from Ft. Meade to Utah, yet it was unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment since "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated."

Tye warned, "unchecked government power to know everything its citizens are doing is very dangerous and easily abused."

What if, "the government perceives this person as a threat and seeks to undermine them? They do everything that they can to humiliate them, to show facts from their personal life in public."

Tye then gave an example of the FBI bugging and threatening Dr. Martin Luther King to drive him to suicide.

He condemned the idea of "a tiny group of spies working in total secrecy with no transparency and no accountability" being able to monitor the private communication of Americans, especially journalists and other concerned citizens attempting to expose wrongdoing.

Ironically, today Zaid appears to be representing a CIA analyst spreading disinformation to discredit an American citizen, violating his Fourth Amendment rights -- much as the FBI did in the case of Dr. Martin Luther King.

In this case, the citizen happens to be President Trump, and the foreigner on the other end of the line is Ukrainian President Zelensky.

As the transcript shows, President Trump was exposing alleged wrongdoing by former Vice President Biden, his son, Crowdstrike and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton involving corruption in the Ukraine and USA that merited investigation.

Which makes President Trump a real whistleblower -- and the so-called "Whistleblower," nothing but a spy.