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In one of the more disturbing reports I’ve seen in some time (and there’s been a hell of a lot lately), Richard Wolffe told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann last night that the White House is investigating the attempted Christmas bombing of Flight 253 to answer this question:

“The question here is why didn’t the centralized system of intelligence that was set up after 9/11, why didn’t it work? Is this conspiracy or cockup?”  He said the White House sees the situation “more as an intelligence lapse than a situation of airport security faults.”

“Conspiracy or cockup?” — That’s a pretty shocking statement when you think about it.  After all, most 9-11 conspiracy allegations are predicated on similar theories — that some in the government may have had ulterior agendas; that they intentionally allowed such a major traumatic event to occur in order to generate so much fear that they could easily unleash their extreme ideologies upon the nation and the world.

Wolffe adds:

“Is it a case of the agencies having so much rivalry between them that they were more determined to stymie each other or the centralized system rather than dealing with the terrorist threat or was it just that there were so many dots no one could connect them because it was all too random to figure out,” Wolffe said.

“Seems that the president is leaning very much towards thinking this was a systemic failure by individuals, who maybe had an alternative agenda.”

“The question is was this information that was shared, remember there was some sharing of information … that information why wasn’t it shared fully. The question there is again, cockup or conspiracy? Was there a reason these agencies were at war with each other that prevented that intelligence from being shared?”

If the President does suspect this system failure was caused by individuals with an alternative agenda, as Wolffe stated in bold above, I doubt Obama would EVER reveal that much to the country.  I suspect the government is more interested in protecting the integrity of the system as perceived by the electorate, than in revealing a truth that might lead the masses to question everything the government says or does in the future.

As vividly demonstrated by Obama — in trying to cover up Bush war-crimes — the government is more about self-preservation, than enforcing the rule of law — no matter how sinister and diabolical the crime.

Here’s the clips of Richard Wolffe speaking first to MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and then to Rachel Maddow:

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