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I wonder if these conspiracy thoughts would be so prominent if not for the recent NSA news? It seems once trust is lost, everything is questioned.

• adventured 13y ago
  Exactly. It's clearly a case of: if they'll do X, will they do Y? The US Government does have a rather sordid history though, it's not like they're saints. From the fake Iraq weapons claims, to the Gulf of Tonkin incident being used to get us into Vietnam. If they'll go to such lengths to get us into wars that kill massive numbers of people (our own included), I do find it hard to believe they won't kill a single journalist (without implying that's what happened to Hastings). "The second Tonkin Gulf incident was originally claimed by the U.S. National Security Agency to have occurred on August 4, 1964, as another sea battle, but instead may have involved "Tonkin Ghosts"[6] (false radar images) and not actual NVN torpedo boat attacks. "The outcome of these two incidents was the passage by Congress of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which granted President Lyndon B. Johnson the authority to assist any Southeast Asian country whose government was considered to be jeopardized by 'communist aggression'." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident Or this (US military admitting to having sprayed black communities in St Louis with radioactive chemicals in the 1950s and 1960s): http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/suit-filed-over-government-test-spraying-in-st-louis-during/article_9bc1fc7d-7093-58a3-b557-0cbac5dc38ab.html http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/suit-fil...