Obama needed a little deflection; of course, the contents of the interrogation that they leaked to NYT was that he had been outraged by the video.
Too bad the illustrator didn’t read the story.
I did read the NYT’s account, however, none of the other reporters that interviewed Khattala mentioned anything about his outrage over the video, so I believe the NYT fabricated that line to fit the Administration’s narrative, thus sealing its own complicity.