Tape was made for dispursement to media, if ABC had not released tape and attack occurred it would only be a matter of time before they were held responsible for not releasing it. Nothing noble in ABC releasing tape, CYA.
Agreed. I mean look at this quote:
One ABC source, who demanded anonymity, said Thursday morning, the network was struggling to finding the correct journalistic "balance."
"This is not something you just throw out there while people are voting," the ABC source explained.
One question: Why not release it during voting? It is obviously the single most important issue of this election. The MSM has released accudsations of missing explosives during voting (and they are not even sure if that can be authenticated)!...