Power; the Secrets of Keeping a Secret

Talk of conspiracies and secret information immediately put people on their guard as they revert to questions like; if that was a real conspiracy how did so many people manage to cover it up; surely someone would have blabbed eventually?

They make the mistake of thinking it works like a children’s game of pass on the whispered message when the last one in the circle reveals all; they think adults have some sort of compulsion to spill the beans at some point.

Except for one thing; it doesn’t work that way in the real world, in the scandal-driven pages of celebrity mags yes; but not in high places.

Conventional wisdom dictates that in order to keep secrets confide in only a few trusted people who’re part of your inner circle- this principle doubly applies to those who hold the levers of power.

The thing to remember is those who are part of high powered inner circles are unlikely to rat out associates, or expose themselves for that matter.

So what happens there………stays there.

The rule of thumb is; those who are privy to the full details of a story comprise of only a small circle, those outside are given information on a need-to-know basis only. So; information they don’t need they won’t know.

Before 9/11 some people were warned not to go to work at the World Trade Center as usual because an event was in the offing.

The affected employees were probably airline executives, investment-bankers or financial traders and other big-wigs, not the normal run-in-the-mill employees.

Those who were warned never heard a word about hijacked planes flying into the twin towers or that in a short space of time the buildings would implode on itself into piles of rubble.

They weren’t given the names of those who planned the attack, or those responsible for putting the plan into action or why it happened.

They were told only what they needed to know and the message was; stay away from the buildings.

Then there is the mystery concerning property developer and owner of the World Trade Center, Larry Silverstein.

Just months before 9/11 he purchased the World Trade Center and according to the talk at the time he took out an insurance policy to cover terrorism shortly before the attacks took place.

The whole affair was whitewashed by proclaimed fact- checking sites but there were just too many fishy coincidences to conclude; nothing to look at here.

After 9/11, Silverstein took the insurance company to court, claiming he should be paid double because there were two attacks. He then won the case and was awarded $4.5 billion.

One source gave the lame excuse for the terrorist inclusion clause in his insurance policy as; “He must have recognized the possibility of a terrorist attack in the future and coincidently got insurance months before.”

Either he imagined the possibility of an attack out of thin air or he was given a heads up, take your pick.

Another coincidence was that Silverstein had a last-minute doctor’s appointment the day of 9/11 and was not in the building.

Snopes gave the weirdest reason for the insurance story; their journo reckoned because the likelihood of terrorism was so remote owners of big buildings like Silverstein were automatically covered so he didn’t have to take out special insurance to cover it.

What this person doesn’t realize are those insurance companies don’t allow for the remote, they can’t provide for every eventuality it’s only when the remote becomes the norm does it become an issue.

Just days prior to the attacks large quantities of stock in United and American Airlines were sold so traders must have been party to insider information.

JFK mentioned secret-societies true, but it’s so much bigger than that.

He just used them as an example of the danger secrets pose to free societies, and conspiracies are a big part of that.

His solution was to encourage transparency at all levels of government but it’s clear his caution went unheeded.

That the secrets of Grassy Knoll in Dallas, Texas died with him is both tragic and ironic.