The more I think about it this makes sense. Perhaps that’s the “bad intelligence” and why Petraeus is MIA.
“A CIA covert operation gone wrong, so-called militia “allies” gone over to the dark side in an al Qaeda directed revenge attack”
Either they didn't get it and could therefore be used as spin doctors using what was provided them through the WH(Susan Rice)
or it was washed to all the analysts privy to the initial message traffic as coming from an unreliable or unproven or extremely sensitive source, not authorized by the WH to be used or rebroadcast in their agency analysis
pending further source confirmation (ha)
Or in the case of Hillary, she didn't want to hear it..... hear no evil see no evil....again, plausible deniability for her role in letting Stevens be actively involved and jeopardize diplomatic immunity of this and other ambassadors