Democrats let it happen and let it slide after the fact. The GOP is criminal. The Democrats are just lazy and weak.

Unger reserved his most intense criticism for the Washington Post, which owned Newsweek at the time and, he says, had an outsize role in quietly killing the story. He’s also equally critical of Congressional Democrats, who he claims never pursued the dramatic charges as earnestly as they should have.

“Democrats were lap dogs,” Unger said

From here:https://www.press.org/newsroom/media-covered-1980-iran-hostage-deal-october-surprise-author-tells-club