Wasn't Stevens trying to clean up some lost(?) grenade launchers .. and isn't this an account of planes being shot at while in the air ?
And how better to confuse anyone trying to connect dots than to have dots that would be absurd if they were connected ...
Unless you were caught and you HAD to flush millions of dollars of perfectly good, saleable drugs down the toilet ...
Just thinkin' outside of the box
One of the hallmarks of this administration has been the commission of outrageous acts, the only defense necessary being to say how outrageous the act would be and how it must be a "conspiracy theory".
What better way to rob/destroy a nation in broad daylight?