I was wondering about this the other day. Is it possible that U.S. intelligence, or even the State Department itself, received information about some specific threat to the embassy in Tripoli, and then decided to secretly relocate Stevens to the mission in Benghazi as a precaution, where he’d be safer, if no one knew about the move. And doing so under the radar, by not taking a substantial security force for protection.
Then it turns out that the intel was a ruse by AlQueda, to cause the move to happen, knowing they could more easily get to Stevens in that place.
And the state department fell for it hook, line and sinker, leading to the attack and his assassination. Something like that would cause the administration to deny it was a planned attack, and for obvious reasons. They would look pretty stupid, and also responsible.
He was scheduled to visit a hospital per this how many knew that?
You get all sorts of points for coming up with a creative concept that I like, but, regrettably, it would have been safer to stick him in Malta than put him in Benghazi.
They knew he was coming to Benghazi. It was public.