The cruelty is the point.

Thank you, watchdog. It's great to have you but sad that we need you. I feel it should be the government's job to be open about such things.

Also, one more proof that this admin is utterly corrupt and lacking any ethics. Put it on the pile which I hope will become useful one day.

Later that month, the US launched strikes on Iran.

They conducted an airstrike on a school that killed a horrific number of children and then proceeded to lie about it, so it can only be assumed it was done deliberately.

They don’ need no steenkeng badges