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In reply to the discussion: This is Seven Days In May, not "creative speculation"... [View all]magical thyme
(14,881 posts)I think they were behind the movie too. It was intended to trigger unrest, both as cover for attack and as distraction/lies to be fed to the administration as cause.
I think everything spun out of control with Ambassador Stevens killed. That, as pcintern wrote above, Romney was "on script" with his smirky press announcement, but events themselves had gone off script. Hence the backfire; that Romney came off looking like the creepy thug he is, dancing on the Ambassador's grave, and it blew up in his face.
So they did the ol' management trick of letting it go for a couple weeks, and then coming up with a new reason to try to blame Obama for Benghazi. And that failed to take hold, and then came Sandy to obliterate their plans.
I dread to think what would have happened had the succeeded. I think we all dodged a bullet, and that includes the President.