I’m guessing the White House was aware of the terrorist attack- probably monitoring it with satellite feeds but Obama chose to go to bed rather than stay up late and act like the commander and chief.
Was he playing golf? Drunk? High? Out with hookers? Hiding under the covers in bed?
Of course they were aware of it - they had it choreographed beforehand as a simple hostage-taking, after which they could exchange Amb. Stevens for the Blind Sheik.
No reason to stay up late to watch that.
Except that Tyrone S. Woods and Glen A. Doherty are the incarnation of Lt. John Ezra Dahlquist and they put the original plan over a cliff.