If true (and now days you have to question everything) it certainly shows the shooter had help from someone at the top.
A favorite tactic (used with brilliance by Bill Clinton) when dealing with bad news was to leak all kinds of different stories some partial true some wildly untrue with the idea of creating a smoke screen where it is impossible for the average person to determine the truth from fiction.
... where it is impossible for the average person to determine the truth from fiction.
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And get the population over saturated and fed up so they abandon any interest.