So in general I have the right to hold an opinion -thanks for reassurance on that Lighter .Am I allowed speculate on the basis of my opinions? Defenders of the ABC news version of whatever happens or doesn't happen should use the hybrid word "opspec" to denote dangerous speculation by people whose opinions do not concur with objective news reporting on US news media.

ABC ,Fox and other US news channels are sources of objective reporting. If there had been any sort of a 9/11 cover-up,they would have told us about it. Does any sane person really think that the NYT would have said there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that Saddam Hussein was intent on using against the American way of life unless the editors at the NYT had carefully checked all the evidence out? Was Colin Powell lying when he said that stuff about the yellowcake uranium powder from Niger or do the wack jobs think that the evidence he produced for its existence was based on some sort of a forgery ? Only a conspiracy theorist would think such a thing but one fact that the loons always conveniently chose to ignore is that the head of the CIA at the time George Tenet also said that this uranium existed ! Who else do they want to drag into their sad fantasies -George Bush , Tony Blair?