I never worked at JAG or anything, but my green wienie sense is suggesting to me that when the military bureaucrats decided to send US propaganda operators into the same arena as US Citizens that the law was broken.
If this is true, then this could well open the door to military intervention into the entire affair. The military bureaucrats didn't work alone -they, and every politician involved would have already been investigated up to their current dining habits
…and this could be an opportunity for military prosecution to enter at any minute
-stage right.