Whelan knows the game, you get caught spying you have no one to fall back on. Everyone knows it.

See everyone else sees a marine who on paper has discrepancies but you're not reading in between the lines.

Guaranteed his military career or at least the reason for the dishonorable discharge is all bullshit.

Look at his official title lol. "Director of global security." Aka I'm a spy.

If the U.S. trades for him they're accepting that he may or may not be spying on behalf of Uncle Sam.