I’m seeing a bunch of posts insinuating that this most recent assassination attempt was fake. Why do people think this? I’m out of the loop.

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    I don’t think it was fake.

    I think they knew it (or something dramatic) was going to happen with plenty of warning and deliberately allowed it to play out for dramatic effect. That was unenthusiastic and unhurried securing of the leadership.

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      It’s my belief that 9/11 was like that too. I don’t think the US government orchestrated it, but I think they sat back and let it happen.

      Anyone who thinks Cheney and friends were above letting a few thousand people die to garner support for another war in the middle east is pretty naive.

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        They did know there was a threat. That is completely true.

        Problem is there were lots of threats.

        They couldn’t separate the real threat from the noise.

        No, it wasn’t deliberate, but it was a failure of the intelligence community.

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      I suspect the guy in question was identified as somebody who might try something stupid, not competent enough to pull it off, and possibly encouraged to try by an undercover agent.

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        Yeah like those “terrorists” that undercover agents encourage in online forums to do radical things, then those agents “bust” them with a random assortment of pipe bombs or something.