When I had the virtues of flight safety drilled into me, it actually didn't matter about the rank, qualification, role or the ultimate intent of the person reporting a potential flight safety incident, all that mattered was you had the integrity and moral fortitude to try and prevent something quite terrible from happening to our brethren in the aviation community.
If you want to protect the reputation of the service, you might want to think about that before you publicly act in a way that causes others to think there might be a flight safety issue. This is nothing to do with the reporting or information source standards of a gutter rag I wouldn't wipe my arse with, and everything to do with professional standards. This incident is a long way from reaching its legal and judicial conclusion, but it's already a massive own goal, whatever the outcome.
You already said "don't attack the messenger" and yet proceed to do exactly that.