Real reason?
There is an election. There’s always been an election. The regime is malfunctional and dysfunctional.
However, it must not be SEEN as malfunctional and dysfunctional, for that would be an image that would diminish the prospects for the ongoing, perpetual election cycle. This, however, is particularly CLOSE to the time of the actual election, and therefore not amenable to damage control normally handled by the lamestreams with careful massaging by the regime.
Hence the fairy tale about the mohammed video. Liars weave tangled webs. History’s lessons tell us that the coverups are always far worse than the malfunction itself. But lib politicians just can’t resist. They always believe that history only applies to the past, and only to the bad guys.
Incompetence and malfunction cannot explain everything we’re seeing.