thats exactly ityou know, it's always bugged me that they spent 70 million dollars investigating a failed land deal/blue dress, but only 7 million investigating 9/11...
however, thinking that there was some type of demolition in downtown manhattan that no one in the world knew about and that they're still able to keep "secret" is just.... well, silliness....
the 9.11 commission seems like it didn't go far enough because it didn't. but not because Tom Kean, et al., were conspiring to hide an intentional act. They came to an agreement, in advance, that they wouldn't lay blame on either party or any president for dropping the ball. THAT is why there are holes and inconsistencies... THAT is the cover the committee gave them....
George Bush didn't allow anyone to intentionally blow up the towers.
did they take advantage of the situation to foster their agenda?
heck yeah.
exactly, it was a political CYA covering the political mess ups that allowed it to get to the point it got
Given that this was the greatest loss of civilian life on US soil perpetrated by a foreign agent in the 233-year history of this country, its not particularly surprising that the official report would not lay blame on anyone.
But conspiracy theorists then make this enormous leap in logic that the report was a cover-up. Conspiracy theorists always make enormous leaps in logic in an attempt to find explanation for actions that don't fit nicely and neatly into a readily-made and easy-to-understand explanation. Conspiracy theorists have little understanding of the nature of randomness.
no one wanted to be blamed for the failures
and if they had a new investigation, they wouldnt come to any different conclusion as to what actually happened, but they might find out why the government didn't put the pieces together to stop it from happening