“At that, part of me wouldn’t be surprised if they do stuff like this on purpose to get people on our side starting dumb conspiracy theories so we are distracted by those and look stupid.”
That is EXACTLY what they do.
The question is how is that stock footage? Where did it come from? Who decided to do it. And how much more of what we saw in the news reports didn’t really happen.
Btw, Anderson Cooper is the one that mysteriously found Stevens diary in Benghazi DAYS after the facility had been lit on fire.