"Have you perhaps considered this incident's relation to the revelation of enemy alliance and coercion present within this unit?" Jasper helpfully wondered aloud with a nod of encouraging to please feel free to consider. It might have been a powerful show of confidence, but any authority following a logical path would have benched a team compromised by subterfuge and mind control for at least as long as it took them to ensure a clean unit. Hammer's wisdom, instead, earned him a public shaming as that show of confidence took a shot at a kid. Followed to its logical conclusion, then, Hammer's casual wave of a traditionally sanctioned inquiry meant that he was less concerned with the presence of a known enemy of the nation within his ranks, and more concerned with anyone else finding out. In other words, Hammer was to be put on trial for treason approximately seven times over for the New Avengers initiative alone, give or take a few victims of mind control.