Indeed, can anything make the press stop carrying water for the administration? This administration's entire premise is that it exists to reduce the risk of terrorism. That was what the GWOT was supposed to be about. That is what they've used to justify all of their illegal actions and all of their fuckups. So when 6 years later it turns out those policies have not actually achieved their aims, even leaving aside all of the additional dead people they've helped create, you'd think it would be fairly logical to see that as
a bad thing.
