We should start a pool on where he was. I say he snuck out to the Rose Garden to get stoned. When the kidnapping went bad, he was too wasted to be of much use. Hillary refused to make any decisions, so Co-President Valerie Jarrett said, “Screw ‘em all. Let them all die, and we’ll just blame that canned video we made.”
:-)
My entry:
I’m guessing that this was a planned operation that went horribly wrong. I think the kidnapping was supposed to be staged, but the mob got out of control.
One piece of missing data is not what time Stevens was killed, but what time the WH realized that Stevens was killed. I think Zippy went to bed (maybe Hillary did, too) thinking all was going to plan. They only got word the next morning that Stevens was dead.
If it looked like things were going according to plan and they didn’t find out until the next morning that Stevens was dead, that could explain why they went to bed, why they seemed unconcerned, and why there were no orders to send a rescue mission.
That would also explain the subsequent panic and need to cover up once they realized that the plan had failed.
The only other alternatives that I can see are:
1. Callous disregard for Americans in danger.
2. Premeditated murder (by proxy mob). Stevens death was part of the plan.
None of these 3 options look good.