Did you even read the article you linked? He talked in vague terms to a WaPo reporter. He canceled leaking the helicopter video to Politico because of weather

Did you even read the article you linked? He talked in vague terms to a WaPo reporter. He canceled leaking the helicopter video to Politico because of weather. He "left a voicemail" with the public editor of the New York Times saying that he had something very important. How many of /those/ calls do they get in a day? But let's say you're right, and we'll call "trying a wee little bit to alert the American media" good. That was #6 on my list (I didn't even count "inform your shrink", btw). What happened to #1-#5? And why did he leak classified material that he didn't read, that was not evidence of war crimes? If you're just going to chisel on a single point of my wall of text then by all means go for it. In the meantime I'll see if I can edit to include how he almost managed to work up the cojones to drop the bombshell at an American newspaper but couldn't muster enough motivation, because I certainly don't want to be even slighty non-factual on HN.