The contingency plan Keamy unlocked... It was top-secret... And it was supposed to tell them where Ben would be in the future...

"Widmore's a smart man"... Hardly that it's the reason...

So, if there is Hanso, Paik, Jacob and Widmore (with Alpert, maybe Abaddon here and there), and if they are the big players in the game about the Island, how come Benjamin got to be the leader of the game? He is, from what we know, one of the younger chosen ones... How did Widmore know all that???

My guess is he's time traveling too and he influenced their destinies in advance...