Embedded Journalists: a seventh-player rule for War On Terror

So, we've just gotten back from an evening at the home of one of enochsmiles' colleagues, where we spent a rousing few hours playing War On Terror: The Board Game. We arrived a little late and wanted to eat first, so the five other people began playing, and enochsmiles swapped in when one of them had to leave early. The game maxes out at six players, but there was really no way to add one more at the stage of the game they were at, so I declared myself the Embedded Journalist and spent the rest of the game peeking at other people's hands, giving advice, and snooping on all the secret messages being passed back and forth.

As we walked home, enochsmiles and I kicked around a way to formalise this as a seventh-player rule, and here's what we came up with.
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We haven't playtested these rules yet, and I don't know if we'll get a chance to do so before we leave Belgium, but I see a new addition to our board game collection in the near future....