Seems doubtful, but again, I, nor you, know what happened and as I've gotten older I've learned not to entirely rule things out. It wouldn't be unusual in a bureaucracy to feel like you have tacit approval to move forward, do so, then have the superior, maybe having gotten input from others or cold feet, to retract that approval. I know you have things constructed so completely in your head as to what's happened here, but as I've pointed out and challenged you, you really don't know beans about what happened and are just guessing and selling it as fact.