As more and more time has passed, I have become more and more convinced that the government misleads the American people.
I experienced this a little bit first hand when I worked for the government. I was just a lowly Congressional Aide and I was privy to things that were not common knowledge. Multiply that by the millions of Federal workers, hundreds of thousands of which have security clearances, and it boggles the mind.
Of the stuff I do know, most government “lies” are misdirection. Take the moon landing for example.
People think the “lie” is that we didn’t go to the moon. That is the cover lie that is easy to discredit. The “real” lie is that we saw or discovered something on the moon that NASA does not want to share with the general public. There is a fair amount of evidence for that - missing tapes, audio on secondary medical channels, retouched photos, change in personality of returning astronauts, etc. Better to hide this lie in the outrageous lie that we never went.
The JFK assassination is a case of a school of red herrings. There are so many lies, so many false leads, so many rabbit holes, that we will probably never know the truth. Was it a lone gunman, three gunmen, the CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, a foreign power, LBJ, a combination of any of these? Was he really killed? Why was he killed? Our intelligence agencies have so muddied the waters - in my opinion to protect themselves - that these questions will never get answered.
As for 9/11...I used to scoff at the idea of an inside job. I am less sure these days. I still don’t buy that we totally did it to ourselves. Did we know it was coming and let it happen? Maybe.
When did we stop trusting our government? At least as far back as the Lincoln assassination. That had the stink of coverup all over it. Political corruption in general goes back even further.
Really, when corruptible people are involved, and they always are, one would be a fool to trust government officials.
one would be a fool to trust government officials.
One would be at least as great a fool to trust "pseudonymous internet dude".
“I still don’t buy that we totally did it to ourselves. Did we know it was coming and let it happen? Maybe.”
I am not going to wade into the 911 debate except with one comment.
If you stop using the word “we” and get a lot more detailed you have a better chance at figuring out the mystery.
One book that names actual human names (no “we”) is this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Another-Nineteen-Investigating-Legitimate-Suspects/dp/1489507833
The Russian collusion hoax showed us the caliber of people working in some of these agencies. My guess is same type of people but with different faces work in these agencies today. Look at Comey, McCabe and the love birds. They went after Trump and his campaign workers while the real threat was Biden and his crack addicted son. Looking back on 9/11, a flight training center called the FBI and said one of their trainees only cared about flying the airplane and the complaint went to deaf ears, or did it?
For me, my great awakening came, when I went to Vietnam in the 70s. I figure, half the things the government tells us, are flat out lies. The other half, are suspect.