I’m thinking VERITUS kid replaced the need for the HATCH ACT.
Just waltz in there, go to the basement and interview these cray crays, on your hide away filming device. Let them spit and miss. Put up the film to the internet, and FOX, and PRESTO on your personnel-deleted key!
They prove to be such an embarrassing pos that they’re fired within hours, with a case closed exit. HA!