It's only a "partisan flashpoint" to those who don't care that four Americans died and don't want to hear why.
Obama and Hillary both got their “3 am phone call” and they failed utterly, abysmally to rise to the occasion.
Remember that fuss in the 2008 Democratic primaries, when Hillary ran the attack ad against Obama suggesting that he was too inexperienced to handle a national security “3 am phone call” as well as Hillary would.
Here they both got a “5 pm” phone call (or thereabouts), with hours and opportunities to save the lives of Americans under attack by jihad terrorists.
Both Obama and Hillary failed the “phone call” national security test, completely.