Maybe I'm over-thinking this after living too many years in the D.C. area and looking for at least some sort of power play logic in everyone's moves.
“But what was the motivation for the op in the first place?”
Simple.
The “spontaneous” lie.
There an al Qaida document recovered in Afghanistan.
It’s a letter from Osama bin Laden to Mullah Omar.
It was listed as doc# AFGP-2002-600321 in what was the CTC at West Point Harmony Database.
That doc is as close to the terrorist playbook as anyone outside of the intel community is likely to get their hands on.
It’s not the playbook for the terrorist overseas but the playbook for the people in this country the terrorist are working for.
The playbook for the people with the objective. The people responsible for making the “PREPARATIONS” for the terrorist attacks and following up after the attacks to achieve the objective of the attack.
The objective of the attack in Benghazi was to make it appear as if there is no “PREPARATIONS” for the attack, they are spontaneous.
It’s a little more complicated, but that is basically what the objective of the attack in Benghazi was about.
A CYA for Hillary’s collaborating with the terrorist and orchestrating the “PREPARATIONS” for the terrorist attacks.