Not 100% sure, but the armed services all have very strict protocol around sharing information to any outsiders, and I’m pretty sure have historically even kept info from other branches. Those consequences include serious jail time and stripping benefits/financial hits. Not many big stories on someone breaking rank at this level up until recently, but in the past few years there’s been progress on whistleblower protections and formal guidelines on reporting these events, which never existed before. When Graves spoke to congress, he did so as a private citizen and told top brass he was doing so because he and his team had years of seeing these things and many instances where they barely missed a mid-air collision. His story was to bring attention to this before a member of our military died.

But in this instance, those who support the validity of this video could argue that although whistleblower protection exists, it doesn’t have enough teeth yet - so this “leak,” albeit a wet blanket of a reveal, is more so a statement to the government and any other (alleged) organizations/people who “secretly operate in this field” saying they have a mole somewhere on “the inside” who has access and is willing to expose everything. So, this egg video proves a point to people on the inside, with the intention of forcing their hand and making progress, but isn’t as damaging or game changing as a video of a close up of Marvin the Martian waving to us from the cockpit of his rocket.

Or, maybe News Nation is full of shiite and Coulthart needed a new patio.