This is the result, but what was the reason? Find that and find the truth. Remember, the Principles were all watching this live as it went down. All had signed off on the Flash traffic that the incident was in progress.
The only plausible explanation for me in allowing or planning for this event and then so heavily covering up has to lie somewhere in an area which ordinary people would see as unspeakable, as an abomination, as a crime of such proportions that the entire US government would fall overnight.
O could be signaling via this Gift that he is willing to trade as many American lives, as many US troops, as many Israeli lives needed to mollify the muslim world. Everyone who is paying attention knows that when Iran has enough working nukes, they intend to use them. They may have one now, and that may not be enough or the right moment has not yet come round.
O, by this act, has said in effect, “kill as many as you want, I'll just watch and make strong speeches.” ... The darkness drops again but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? -- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
And we are supposed to trust this bunch of lying scum when they tell us that the drone was unarmed?
That area is the gun running operation that moved thousands of tons of formerly Libyan weapons to Al Qaeda mercenaries in Syria. Weapons used to slaughter Christians and overthrow the secular Syrian government that never attacked the USA.