Once something like this happens, the frenzy is on. Anyone who knows Hanssen is interviewed. Family is sought out, then neighbors, then ex-FBI agents and finally experts on espionage. Almost anyone who has written a book on spies is interviewed. Psychiatrists and sociologists are asked to explain what was going on in Hanssen's tricky head.
Television is more desperate than print because TV needs pictures.
Once they get a picture, they run the same one night after night. Although he hasn't been tried yet, the American public has declared Hanssen guilty of crimes against his country. Now the interviewers are frothing. They will do anything to get him on the air, even promise him amnesty if he just appears. The newspapers also want his exclusive story and send offers to him.