Probably a combination of both. They bucked what info they bothered listening to in order to "demonstrate" that Zero's "policies" were going to defang the terrorists, then had to bring in the arsenal of lies to try to cover his sorry a$$ when it hit the fan. I'm still waiting for his final last gasp "stategy to perform some sort of "kinetic" action about 5 days before the election.
The conceived, fostered, planned, financed, armed, and backed up this ‘revolution’ with American Forces acting under ‘coalition’ orders led by Obama (from behind).
In fact, some of the security teams were there to buy back some of the nasty weapons Obama gave the rebels before.
Nothing about this terror plan could be revealed to be an actual ‘plan’. That’s why our embassy team was abandoned in-place. Couldn’t chance the public finding out the truth. And, that’s why the horseshit YouTube movie excuse. Nope, not OUR fault...some crazy racist caused all this -— totally spontaneous...ha.