Both. This was a political Hail Mary by the derpstate to try and garner sympathy for them prior to election day. Add in whatever flavor of conjecture you want to that: incompetence of the perpetrators, patriots intercepted the real ones and swapped them with fakes only Wile E. Coyote would buy, and so forth.
It was/is also a distraction. Not sure what happened today if anything.
Sandy Hook docs were ordered to be released yesterday I think.
John Solomon had a monster piece in the Hill about Papadopuolos yesterday, who testifies today by the way. It does look like the FISA fuckery may heating up again: Solomon's piece indicated that there were recordings of some of the conversations between PapaD and his contacts. Plus the drums are beating louder that Mifsud is really western intel and not russian. The implications of that are 'Yuge!'
Have you noticed that 'muh caravan' has pretty much disappeared from the news cycle?