The conservative organization Accuracy in Media accused the "Times" and "Post" of timing their stories to release them just before the congressional debate. Five months later, Accuracy in Media devoted an entire edition of its "AIM Report" to Bonner in which its editor Reed Irvine declared, "Mr. Bonner had been worth a division to the communists in Central America." Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas O. Enders attacked Bonner and Guillermoprieto before a Senate committee, stating that there had been a battle between guerrillas and the army, but "no evidence could be found to confirm that government forces systematically massacred civilians." Enders also repeated the claim that only 300 people had lived in el Mozote, and it was impossible for the death toll to have reached that reported in the "Times" and "Post" stories.