It’s very possible that the only reason this is now surfacing is because Obama was concerned about his reelection prospects should a rescue go awry, ala Jimmy Carter.
Think about it. We send in a rescue team, they fail and are killed and it’s 6 weeks before the election. Once the public found out and references to Carter made, the Dems would appear week on International issues, Obama may not have been reelected and it would have been possible for the Republicans to get the House, Senate and White House. This would have changed the landscape of politics for a long time.
It was better for Obama to cover this up as it gave the media more room to protect him.
Agree. And now is the safest time politically to trot this out and deploy the enemedia to obfuscate the facts, discredit the witnesses and move past this unfortunate event, which, according to the Obama Propaganda Department, “Happened a Long Time Ago”.