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This is a the consequence of having an administration that transparently lied at every turn. Even if they were right, no one would believe them.

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Your statement follows a pattern of, ‘the person was doing X therefore the unjustifiable response was justified.’ This fails the commonly adopted Rawlsian theory of justice (Veil of Ignorance), and it is known as victim blaming.

I made no statement about whether anyone's actions were justified, only that they made sense given the state of affairs.

If you're not trying to justify it, then no, it doesn't make sense at all. The media failed (or purposefully sought not) to deliver information in a useful form.

Delivering such information is supposedly the reason the media exists. There's no merit or utility in extending that abject failure to the information source or destination.

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