In the run-up to yesterday's House hearings on Benghazi, we were struck by a column by The New York Times' public editor. It was written in response to readers angry that the paper was not giving the Benghazi hearings the coverage they merited.
After suggesting that such criticism was politically motivated and "fomented by Fox News," the editor offered an interesting conclusion. "The Times," she wrote, "has had a tendency to both play down the subject, which has significant news value, and to pursue it most aggressively as a story about political divisiveness rather than one about national security mistakes and the lack of government transparency."
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Translation: The critics are right.
We don't mean to single out the Times. For eight months now, the national press corps has shown little interest in questioning President Obama's narrative that any mistakes made before, during or after the Benghazi attacks were through incompetence brought about by the fog of war.
That storyline took a big hit yesterday on Capitol Hill from three State Department officers who had direct knowledge of the events surrounding that deadly terror assault. If their testimony is true, key aspects of the administration's narrative do not hold. And if it's also true that some were pressured to keep their mouths shut, we now have an even bigger story — which should especially interest those who complain the issue has been "politicized."
Not that the press corps doesn't know how to hold a pol accountable. At Mitt Romney's press conference the day after the attacks on our diplomatic posts, six of the eight questions directed at the GOP candidate were about the appropriateness of his statement on Egypt rather than what went down there.
President Obama has faced nothing remotely like that in the eight months since those four Americans were killed. Judging from yesterday's testimony from three compelling witnesses, it's time he did.
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