Do you think governmental mis-information is unique to our little corner of the world? All governments on every continent selectively leak information and/or mis-information to their citizens in order to preserve the peace, maintain the status quo, and most importantly to prevent anarchy or revolution that could disrupt their governmental power base. Most notorious are the Asian and Middle East countries, a never ending cauldron of civil unrest. Our government has been guilty of feeding us mis-information, Viet Nam is one example I am quite familiar with, but I don't think this remotely applies to what happened on September 11, 2001. But, here we can freely discuss issues like this in any public forum we choose, freely investigate, and demand results. The truth all comes out eventually. Try discussing issues like this on a public forum (if you can) questioning your government in Japan, Iran, Uganda or Panama to name a very few. You won't be around too long.