How insidious.
The word “theatrics” is a dog whistle and one small drop of poison in the well.
And this summary dismissal seems fair:
“...Republicans hope to gain political traction before congressional elections in November by accusing the White House of muddying the facts”.
It’s just a political game about muddy facts. Not about a dubious mission regarding arms and Islamists, a failed Middle East policy, a security debacle due to PC fantasies of top officials, general misjudgement and incompetence, holding back available rescue forces, an orchestrated campaign of lying to the American people and Congress, fake State Department “investigations”, cover-ups and stonewalling, firing regional commanders for not playing along, preventing witnesses form testifying, etc. Reuters, muddying the facts for political purposes.