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As shitty as he is, so far I don't think he's responsible for this.
The Washington ATC saw the helicopter and the plane and warned the chopper twice, and the helicopter crew twice indicated they saw the plane and were maintaining distance visually.
It sounds like the helicopter crew screwed up here, not the overworked ATC. We won't know for sure for months exactly what happened, but the ATC audio and flight radar logs are publicly available and appear to indicate the controller did everything right.
And for the Philadelphia crash - we simply don't know what happened yet. The plane took off, didn't signal any kind of duress, and crashed a minute later with no communications after hand-off from the airport controller.