"precisely aimed"
A misaligned scope, sticky bolt, iron sights zeroed in for 200 yards, and a 2 stage hair trigger.
It couldn't be precisely aimed.
Firing that rifle twice in 1.6 seconds, if it didn't jam, would have given a shooter from 6th floor SE corner TSBD as much chance of hitting JFK in the neck and/or head as if they had taken their time firing from the 2nd floor lunchroom.
1.) On a rifle zeroed for 200 yds, the difference between a 200-yard shot and one at 88 yards is about two inches.
2.) Two-stage triggers are almost ubiquitous on bolt-action military rifles. The rifle competition crowd have been increasingly using them in the past 15 years. A two-stage trigger simply isn't the impediment you seem to believe it to be.
3.) A hair trigger would actually make it easier to shoot accurately.
4.) The effort required to work the bolt doesn't affect the accuracy of the rifle itself.
Simmons was saying that CE139 was set up differently from what his shooters were used to, and his guys had to adjust to it. Even then, all of them were able to perform to the WC's 2-out-of-3 hits, and at least one was able to achieve 3 hits in less than 5.6 seconds. Each design has it's idiosyncrasies, and any shooter used to one type is liable to face a learning curve if they pick up another and try to shoot it. The only thing you had right is that the scope sucked. Read Frazier's account of it -- it lost zero and they had to shoot several rounds out of it to get the reticle to stabilize itself enough so that it could be reliably zeroed. The problem for you is that the iron sights were perfectly usable, and a scope that bad would easily found out as a lemon by anyone who shot it.