Putting your country at risk by violating the laws intended to guard against such risk are both malum in se and malum prohibitum.
malum in se
(mal-uhm in say) adv. Latin referring to an act that is “wrong in itself,” in its very nature being illegal because it violates the natural, moral or public principles of a civilized society. In criminal law it is one of the collection of crimes which are traditional and not just created by statute, which are “malum prohibitum.”
Good common law stuff, but here, you need to have violated either the Constitution as written and originally understood and intended or a constitutional federal statute which 18 U.S. Code § 793(f) is.