If you're looking for plots and if your looking for lies, look no further than the man who said, "...if we may not hope to avoid war, we may at least expect that posterity will acquit us of having needlessly engaged in it..." and then started a war. A man who claimed to desire peace but immediately extablished an army 6 times the size of the Federal governments. A man who claimed to stand for justice and respect of the law but who tellingly spoke only of establishing "...branches of the executive department, having special charge of foreign intercourse, finance, military affairs, and the postal service." No justice department and especially no supreme court, in spite of the fact that his constitution called for one. There is the liar.
Considering he did not state his FULL intentions and conveniently left out the other part of the order - directions to fight their way in - that he gave to the ships themselves, a simple answer would be to decieve.
Why did he make his belief that the forts down south were federal property and would be held or reposessed clear in public speeches up to and including his inaugural?
PR campaigning.
There was nothing mysterious or secret about his intentions.
Then why all the confidentiality seals?