If you wanted conspiracy theories to flourish after the 9-11 attacks, here's what you'd do.

You'd suppress video evidence of the attacks themselves.

You'd ship the rubble from the attacks overseas immediately without looking at it.

You'd call everyone who disputed the official narrative crazy or a criminal.

You'd engage in a campaign of very obvious lies about the attacks.

You'd do everything you could to prevent an actual investigation into what happened. You'd avoid

any public trials. And when you captured and killed the perpetrator, you'd show no photos or video

evidence of the raid that killed him, and then you'd dump his body into the middle of the ocean.

Then you'd use the attack to justify the invasion of a completely unrelated

country on behalf of a foreign power. In other words, you'd do exactly what the US government

did in the wake of 9-11. It's possible that there are people who wanted conspiracy theories

to thrive.

The more far out, the better.

The more time people spend wondering about directed energy weapons,

the less time they focus on the obvious, the facts hiding in plain sight.

And the main fact that they are ignoring is our government's central role in facilitating those attacks. We established

this in episode one of this series, and the extreme levels of incompetence that made it possible

for bin Laden from Kandahar Afghanistan to pull off the most sophisticated terror attacks

in history. On the other hand, not all the wildest theories about 9-11 are crazy.

Some of them raise legitimate questions about what happened.

And in this episode, we'll go through those theories one by one,

and explain using primary source documents, interviews with CIA officials,

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