It’s interesting to discover the media has not altered their role as traitors since December 5th, 1941.
With hindsight leaking the war plans can seem traitorous. But I can see an editor (McCormick) who actually fought in the First World War wanting to keep American men from dying in another unnecessary and horrendously grisly European war. The Germans and the Soviets were both bad (and basically allies before Hitler ordered the invasion), so no great loss there. We did not yet understand the that the Nazi Party wanted to completely rid the world of Jews, so there wasn’t that clear good versus evil distinction yet. Sending tanks and planes was certainly preferable to shipping another generation of young men to Europe to become cannon fodder.