I don’t think it was ignorance. Crowley planned to take the issue of Libya away from Romney in cohoots with the Obama team. It was preplanned. That’s why when Obama prompted her “say it louder Candy” she had her sheet in front of her immediately ready to back him up and silence Romney.
She was willing to take one for the team there, get the “big win” for her side and spin it later as merely trying to move the debate along.
These folks are not clueless they are calculating.
Maybe so, but methinks they have seriously miscalculated in this instance.