Reply #150: Here's my reason for questioning it

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Tony Snow: A Vote for Lamont is a Vote for Another 9/11

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1865964

In light of that, the timing is coincidental enough that it makes me raise my eyebrows. Remember that using the media to disseminate propaganda is a very old, widely practiced form of social manipulation. To believe unquestioningly that the terror plot was true is to believe that our government would never lie to us and neither would our media. There might have been a time when I would have believed that, but not since the lead-up to the Iraq war. I've seen enough now to KNOW that both our government and media will indeed blatantly lie to us when it suits their purposes.

I do believe terrorism is real and I don't believe it's all a plot, but this administration in particular is particularly skilled at lying to the public about very important issues, so for that reason I cannot blindly trust it when they tell me a terror plot has been foiled.