Remember the quote:

 "Never let a good crisis go to waste"

 I don't think it is staged by O, but I do think you are on the right track, it will be their avenue to the end they want. Along with the FCC controlling the airwaves so we have an orderly news network so they can control talk radio and 24 hour news stations. Who was it that was crying last week about how all the "news" networks were interfering with the work of congress, in other words they couldn't hide what was going on in congress.