For example, only after a British underseas film crew exploring the SS Lusitania in the 1970's published the photographs of "war materiels" did the original shipping manifests "magically" appear from the US Archives.
For almost eight (8) decades, Americans were told that the Wilson Administration "would never put innocents in Harm's Way" - over a thousand people died. And it still took the Zimmermann Telegraph for Wilson to get the US Congress to vote for a declaration of war for entry in WWI - BUT AT LEAST WILSON DID GO BEFORE CONGRESS!!!
An odd thing about the SS Lusitania, and the Zimmerman Telegraph - in both cases Winston S. Churchill had "his fingers" in each of the pies ...
So, we have a proven case where the US government has knowingly placed its own people in Harm's Way, and good old WSC "working" to save the British ...
Hello FDR and Pearl Harbor ... See Stinnett "Day of Deceit" (paperback), and Wilford "Pearl Harbor Redefined - USN Radio Intelligence in 1941."
British interference in U.S. policy is pretty well documented by now. The degree of alienation of the policy elites of the 1930's and 40's from the people whose proxy they supposedly held as a sacred trust -- it was the bedrock of the New Deal, still implicitly believed in by e.g. Doris Kearns Goodwin -- has yet to be fully documented beyond (self-interested) dispute.
To me, the American experience since FDR brought the Brain Trust to power and established the current policy-wonk technocratic "meritocracy" will bear in some important lessons for future American voters and politicians. To me, the apex and defining moment of that relationship between the policy elite and the People occurred in February 1968, when the Ten Wise Men, swallowing their earlier advice to Lyndon Johnson, told him the Vietnamese War was lost.....the first war America had ever lost, and it was their war ..... and simply got up and left the room, leaving President Johnson muttering to himself and an aide or two, "Somebody poisoned the well."
Exactly, Lyndon. That's exactly what happens when you trust other people who think they're smarter than you are.