Who should be believed in all this yick-yack and who should not, and why?
Are you The Imperial Reference Of Record?
And if you are why did not you highlight just your own posts to that effect?
It started with YOUR listng a bunch of government reasons why they should have been able to do what they did. Where’s the debunking, and whose debunking is correct and whose is off the mark?
Don’t be a clown.
Read it.