Reply #1: Why No Crime Scene Investigation? [View All]

[petgoat]

Because "the world can never be the same" after 9/11 and we already
knew all we needed to know about the 19 young muslims who did the deed
and because treating terrorism as a crime had obviously failed under
Clinton and we were at war now, dammit, and going to kick some Arab
butt and torture the truth out of them, and we didn't need any
namby-pamby "evidence" and "investigation" consumimg energies and
resources and valuable media time because we needed to devote
ourselves to killing terrorists and bringing liberal democracy and
hope to millions of backward Arabs.

That's pretty much how the official line goes, isn't it?

The book "True Lies" in its discussion of its investigation of flight
93 points out that the media were very highly de-motivated to
investigate because they loved the "lets roll" story so much they
didn't want to corrupt it. Besides, it would have been downright
unpatriotic to question authority in time of war, right?