Outstanding job.
Yep. A real rescue attempt was too risky — not to a military team — but politically, in light of the election. So, as you say, they went small.
I think this whole coverup I was begun to draw attention away from a single thing: what was the CIA doing there? Everything I have heard so far has directed attention away from the Annex. They did not want the SEALs going to the consulate—not because they could get into a firefight—but because it would draw attention to the assets we had in the area.
What were they doing there that would cause Obama more political harm than four dead Americans.