Which means that, at some point during a trial, all information pertaining to that trial is automatically public information. Obviously, there is a problem here. David Sentelle is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit, and John Butzner and Peter P. Fay were senior appellate judges. Back in 1994 they issued a ruling in a case involving The Wall Street Journal in which they told the Journal, and the rest of the American press, that it could not even print the court's ruling. It's the same with Congress.
China knows all about it.
Great Britain knows all about it. The White House knows all about it. The senators' favored reporters receive leaks of the information early so they can have their stories written up and ready to go before deadline, and often before the event actually happened. Only the American people are kept out of the knowledge loop. National security, they said.