With the premise 'Those accounts had the effect of deflecting questions about the military's capacity to obtain timely and accurate information from its own sources.', is 'As a result, the military faced less scrutiny about its information-gathering.' a logical derivative?
Those accounts had the effect of deflecting questions about the military's capacity to obtain timely and accurate information from its own sources.###As a result, the military faced less scrutiny about its information-gathering.