What, are you a snitch at work?
If something happens in a work project that I disagree with, I don't rush into my bosse's office and say:"Well, so-and-so (insert name here) is totally doing things the wrong way...he's/she's screwing up the project in my opinion!""
wow, the king of strawmen strikes again.
"So, my first reason is that since this didn't pertain to a criminal or civil matter, there was no need to drag the person's name out in a public forum. Possibly exposing them to ridicule and embarrassement. "
Then why did he bring it up? As I said, and you ignored, if he was trying to prevent embarassment or ridicule, then why bring it up?
Lorax already listed a ton of other reasons, that make a hell of a lot more sense, than asserting the U.S. Surgeon General made up this thing out of whole cloth and lied under oath about it.