Barack Obama Rock Center: President Describes The Killing Of Osama Bin Laden As The 'Most Important' Day Of His Presidency

The role of BrianWilliams is to glorify political and military leaders, but he really outdid himself last night:

Whatever one’s position is on the killing of OsamaBinLaden — and I’ve always argued that there is a range of reasonable views — there are many journalistically important questions and significant disparities that still need serious examination (with all due respect (i.e., none) to JohnKerry’s dictate that we all “shut up and move on”). For one, as both MotherJones’ MarkFollman and my formerSalon colleague JustinElliott have extensively documented, there are — due to multiple conflicting WhiteHouse claims — numerous unanswered questions about what really happened on the raid.

There’s also the question of why Obama aides like JohnBrennan spouted outright falsehoods to the world on key questions (such as whether BinLaden was armed or used his wife as a “human shield” and whether there was a “shootout” in the house). There are conflicting claims about whether a full video recording of the raid exists.

There’s the contradictory administration behavior of resisting lawsuits seeking any disclosure about the raid on secrecy grounds while simultaneously boasting publicly about the details of the raid for political gain. And there’s the question of whether previous American statements — and the principles of Nuremberg — would've made it better (or even legally necessary) to apprehend BinLaden for trial; whether doing so was reasonably possible; and whether that was permitted by the mission plan.

None of those questions was even acknowledged, let alone meaningfully addressed, by last night’s one-hourmelodramatic extravaganza hosted by NBC News anchor BrianWilliams. This BinLaden show was hagiography in its purest, most propagandistic, and most subservient form.  

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