We must speak the truth about terror. Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th, [which are] malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists themselves, away from the guilty." -- George W. Bush, speaking before the UN General Assembly on 10 November 2001.

It's pretty near impossible to reject the "conspiracy theories" concerning the attacks of September the 11th -- it's even difficult to see them as "outrageous" ideas that should "never" be "tolerated" -- when the person who is exhorting you to do these things is himself surrounded by such theories. Despite, perhaps even because of 11 September 2001 and the subsequent "war on terrorism" launched by the United States, we remember that, prior to September 11th, the most interesting (plausible) conspiracy theory making the rounds concerned the rigging of the votes in Florida, Jeb Bush's state, which led to his brother's election to the presidency.

There really should be no surprise here. Can anyone remember the last time the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) anticipated a major historical event? No: it "missed" the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the invasion of Kuwait, the bombing of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, etc. etc. And what was the CIA doing while these and other things took place? Assassinating democratically elected leaders such as Patrice Lumumba and Salvadore Allende; dealing drugs to raise money for illicit campaigns against popular movements in Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvadore; propping up corrupt regimes such as those run by Fujimori and Pinochet; etc. etc. And the Federal Bureau of Investigation? When was the last time the FBI caught a "most wanted" criminal? A long, long time ago. Most people today associate the FBI with scandal: the murders at Ruby Ridge and Waco; the "misplacement" of guns, laptop computers and files; the failure to disclose the existence of 4,000 documents pertaining to Timothy McVeigh; and the exposure of Robert Hanssen, Russia's spy in the FBI. American taxpayers have been wasting their money by funding a great many if not all of these agencies.

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