When personnel making written reports to proper terminals on out Ethics situations get accused of being third parties it becomes unsafe to report. Ethics without reports becomes ineffective and suppressives have a ball.
Proper terminals are unsafe to report to.
A third party can make all sorts of wild false reports verbally to various staff members. The on-policy staff member hearing these then makes a written report to Ethics stating what was said and who said it. The reports were neglected. A later third party investigation said the reporting staff member was the third party even though his reports gave all available information, sources of data, who else knew about it and could give data, etc. All reports were in writing and signed.