I will say this.
EVERYTHING changed on 09/11/2001.
FWIW (for the thread) I do not believe it was a conspiracy in the traditional since as a guy I’ve known since junior high school was sitting on his front porch, looking almost straight on in the direction of Whiteman AFB (he was East of it).
He would tell me (later) that morning he was sitting on his front porch. When he saw every single B-2 (it seemed) scrambled. They would go directly (or nearly directly) right over his house.
The 9/11 conspiracy seems to have been that the CIA and the leadership of Saudi intelligence thought that they had set up and controlled a Muslim terrorist plot to let hijackers train in the US. The plan was to arrest them just before the attack, which would have left Al Queda and bin Laden embarrassed and discredited.
As it was, Al Queda loyalists inside the Saudi government subverted the CIA-Saudi intelligence plan and steered the 9/11 plotters to an extraordinary success. Later, for the sake of forgiveness from the US, the Saudi royals purged their intelligence services and government of Al Queda sympathizers. The key malefactors were executed or died under mysterious circumstances that indicate suicide or a state-sanctioned killing.
Such a high level operation would not have involved those officials who responded with the B-2 launches or the carrier task forces immediately sent to various areas.
GHW Bush and his progeny are horrible people!!