Considering the first report on 4Dec indicated the aircraft was was from the DoD/ISAF, then on 6Dec the reports further clarified this was not an ISAF bird, but instead belonged to the CIA makes me wonder a little.
If a spare intel resource swapped between buddies, then it wouldn’t be surprising if it were held together with ‘baling wire’, and it actually might be the real McCoy.
Considering the lack of discipline from White House down on how to report the incident, I suspect they don’t know what the hell is going on.
Looks like an early variant of the bird that was operational. White House behavior is all too consistent with somebody who doesn’t have a clue, but knows that whatever the solution is it couldn’t be to defend American interests.