: Another is that they have real-time comms, although that seems less likely
: given that it only seems to be a recent dev by the end of the war, and I
: doubt the civilians get a hold of it this soon after.

1) There are several interruption-stutter in the dialogs, so they're very close to real-time comms in those interviews.

2) Except for the off-the-list interviews, he isn't just a civilian.