Official Version of Naval Incident Starts to Unravel

"Despite the official and media portrayal of the incident in the Strait of Hormuz early Monday morning as a serious threat to US ships from Iranian speedboats that nearly resulted in a "battle at sea," new information over the past three days suggests that the incident did not involve such a threat and that no US commander was on the verge of firing at the Iranian boats."

Why is it that whenever there is a "question of facts" these days, the US is the one "miss representing" those facts?