The big guy is hiding something big. He’ll do anything to keep it secret, and the media will do anything to protect him.
Increasingly, it looks like the rumor of gunrunning to Syria from Libya was a sideshow.
The "Main Event" at Benghazi may well have been a scheme to kidnap Amb. Stevens and subsequently set sup a prisoner exchange for the Blind Sheikh.
In which case, the POTUS and the SOS would've been complicit.
That theory certainly fits with and tends to explain everything we now know about the affair. Despite the conscious effort to diminish security at the location, everything went awry when there was resistance (recall that Woods and Doherty were initially ordered to remain at the Annex).
Given the nature of what was contemplated, a cover-up was absolutely essential.
Mohammed Morsi's trial is scheduled to begin in a couple of weeks in Cairo. Perhaps, it will provide additional fuel for the fire.