[Brilliant]

I suspect that they set it up this way because they knew that if they did nothing, the media would have made a big deal of it, and demanded prosecution.

[Publius6961]

if they did nothing, the media would have made a big deal of it, and demanded prosecution.

They want prosecution? Let's give it to them.
For providing aid and comfort to the enemy.

I have failed to find when and how being a correspondent created immunity for brainless traitors.