The military is not going to say "The Washington Post is wrong." without conducting their own investigation to determine exactly what happened.
They are also not going to do a line-by-line refutation of every news story in America: "This was wrong." "This was right." "We don't know about this." "This is partially true, but we can't reveal any more until we can declassify the intel." . . .
Mule Fritters. Too many Pentagon and military brass were on the news shows when this was going on. They let it stand. Period.