While covering the new House Select Committee hearings on Benghazi, the media should contrast that disaster with the 9/11 one in terms of advanced warnings received, damage done, investigations that followed and finally whether responsibility was taken and accountability established. The information and sources for the 9/11 disaster are in chapter two of the book, The Right-Wing Threat to Democracy, and for the Benghazi disaster in the State Department report and various House and Senate investigative reports published over the past year.
Why is this important?
The public needs to be better informed on how well the administration of each political party handled these two disasters and the extent to which there was full disclosure to the public or a politicized one.
