So the theory is that they told this film maker he’d have to go to jail for a decent length of time, & he said, ‘Anything for the cause’?
[I’m just trying to understand. If the filmmaker was in cahoots with the government, why put him away for what seems a fairly long sentence? Was he convinced that going to jail was his Islamic duty? If so, what good did he see coming from it? Some have said he was persuaded that his film would be used to outlaw the criticism of Islam. If so, how is that playing out in a practical way?]
In order to keep him incommunicado until the Bengazi hubbub quieted down, after which interest in his backstory would have gone away. The election was 5 weeks away, then.
At the very, very least Obama's reelection would be OVER, so the truth --even if it were to come out-- would no longer matter to the re-elected Obama.
I doubt that he was ever told that they would lock him up for 11 months. Incommunicado. Since when are prisoners held incommunicado in the U.S.?