When Al-Qaeda themselves claimed responsibility, even with overwhelming evidence aside? Why were so many people still reluctant, I was researching about this stuff and was shocked to see people who I respect a lot believe in this

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    • It was done by a group propped up by the CIA.

    • Immediately after the attack the US gov did nothing but watch Bin Laden go from a known position into unreachable hideout. Then immediately started an illegal attack that took years to get authorized.

    • Just after this, the US started a huge war, with plenty of indiscriminate civilian killing against one of the largest enemies of the people behind Al-Qaeda, and started exercises for a war against another one of their other top 3 enemies.

    • The US intelligence organizations got several warnings, didn’t act on any of them.

    And I’m pretty sure there are more issues, I didn’t follow it closely. During all that time the media was lying about everything. So, if you have to believe something that is not the official information, I’d guess it’s not hard to go overbroad and decide the US gov took the building down by themselves.

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      It was done by a group propped up by the CIA.

      That doesn’t really narrow it down. Langley has its fingers in a lot of pies.

      Immediately after the attack the US gov did nothing but watch Bin Laden go from a known position into unreachable hideout. Then immediately started an illegal attack that took years to get authorized.

      Hanlon’s Razor means this is likely because the US government was stupid, rather than malicious

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        because the US government was stupid

        It was maliciousness, but a completely different kind of maliciousness than the people on the “9/11 was an inside job” train decided it was.

        It made some people lots of money directly, and it got other people the goodwill of some rich bastards. None of what had any relation to 9/11.