This misses the real reason for the conspiracy folks and it is the same kind of folks who buy into grand government control theories.
As much as they fear and distrust authority (probably related to their child hood), their real fear is that the authorities are not in control. It is plain to see that our government is not fully in control of events and cannot protect us, just as a child someday realizes that their parents are not able to protect them.
These people cannot handle this truth so they conjure up an imaginary government, a shadow government. This government is the real cause of these events and is always in control of everything. To them WTC event was controlled rather than uncontrolled. To them the recession is manufactured, to them all bad events are in control only they are in control of a shadow government.
Man is no more in control of the evil in this world than he is of the global climate. It is hubris to think otherwise.
They also deny the reality that God is in ultimate control and that the patterns of evil are part of the satanic control that is allowed to control the earth.
“These people cannot handle this truth so they conjure up an imaginary government, a shadow government.”