Wouldn an insider conspiracy involve a large number of people and be hard to keep secret?
Not necessarily. It’s not hard to come up with a speculative scenario that involves fewer conspirators than the independent “terrorist” theory. And insiders have a lot more incentive to keep quiet, and probably more practice. Most important, what the public knows is what the public wants to know, or what they’re told over and over, not what one person says that sounds totally crazy. The reason they get away with this stuff is not that they’re good at hiding it — on the contrary, they do it right out in the open! They get away with it precisely because people can’t believe they would do it. Napoleon said, “To be believed, make the truth unbelievable.” Our leaders would never do something like that to their own people. It’s fully documented that our leaders would do something exactly like that. Operation Northwoods was a plan in the 1960’s to conduct fake terror attacks, including killing Americans and blowing up planes, and blame it on Cuba to get public support for an invasion. It was