Remember this? Thread: Something Just Went BEZERK in the Gulf of Mexico. The US Navy just sunk a French Submarine

What if the whole French angle was disinfo, and the sub was really Chinese? This was only a few months before the missile was fired off of the California coast. Maybe they got caught in the gulf, but not in the Pacific?

And that whole oil spill thing kept all eyes on the gulf for a good long time. Along with a good excuse to have law enforcement along the shores at all times.