In case it was not clear, my comment (number 5) was directed toward Honeyman's comment. I did not address Larry Kastenbaum's post in that comment.

As far as the original post, it is based on the assumption that if there was a big cover-up, there would be more leaks, whistleblowers, etc.

The problem with that is that there have been many leaks, and the reason why they are not more popularly known is that the mainstream media won't report them. Primarily because the mainstream media is liable for so many other distortions (eg all the other big stories it marginalizes) if it concedes that the "conspiracy theorists" have some valid arguments.

Calling conspiracy theories "far fetched" (though Kastenbaum doesn't use that particular phrase) isn't saying much, because the 9/11 attacks themselves are highly improbable (the U.S. failed to prevent them?) and because many "facts" of 9/11 are totally impossible (fuel fires bending steel?)

The motive, the physical evidence, and the cover-up evidence all point straight at the Bush regime and the skeptics' strongest argument is that if our allegations were true, there would be more evidence.

Let me remind everyone that the federal government can be very persuasive. A country does not become the world's most powerful empire through stupidity. To think that 19 terrorists armed only with small boxcutting knives could subdue four planes of people (or smuggle firearms on board?), and foil every American defense apparatus in the process is a conspiracy theory. To believe that all of the highly improbable events (the WTC collapses, the minute damage to the Pentagon, the fighter plane sighted in Shanksville, etc) were coincidences, and that DNA records of the crash victims was recovered but identifiable parts of the aircraft were not makes it even more absurd.

It is time to stop spreading absurd conspiracies about September 11th.

http://www.a2planet.com/loony.html
http://www.a2planet.com/blog/skeptics.html