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Originally Posted by jayeff
You don't seem to be able to distinguish between "conspiracy theorists" with full-blown alternatives to the official version of events, and people with often obvious questions about 911.
The secrecy issue alone has to raise more questions than it answers. Why exactly did the White House put so many roadblocks even in the way of sanctioned investigations? This isn't a police state or some private fiefdom.
As to the Pentagon itself: if that were any other hole in any other wall and someone tried to tell you that a plan crashed through it, I seriously doubt you would believe them without clear proof. Why do you demand lower standards from a government which has a solid record of lies and spin?
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I will tell you why they have roadblocks. First, it's just standard procedure. Agencies don't like talking when they don't have to. They like being secretive. It sucks, it's wrong, but it's been our government for as long as we've had it. Secondly, there are a lot of people who look bad because of this. Whether it's being unprepared, missing obvious signs, or so on, they fucked up. These people don't want to lose their jobs and don't want the public shame that comes with having incompetent people in government.
I worked for the government out of college. I'm not going to get into where or what, but I will tell you that it is a huge beauracracy. Shit takes forever to get done. I kid you not, if you needed to change your address, it would have to go through 5 departments and take 2 months.
The people on top are not very smart. Most are political appointees or people who just made the right connections. You would be astonished at how little knowledge my superior had over what I did. I couldn't ask him questions because he simply didn't know the answers.
So I guess what I'm saying is that the US government is not smart enough to pull something off. Look at Katrina.