"If it wasn't the Lake George incident or missing girls, something else would be designated to be blown up into a major topic."
The threats to NY they announced today should assure that this story does not see the light of day in the MSM. Unfortunate, but most likely true that most Americans will consider all the evidence uncovered regarding the Norman Bombing as "conspiracy theories" from here on out.
Those investigating Waco and Ruby Ridge, the "militias", gun owners, and the religious right were all splattered with the blame for the bloodshed there, to Clinton's political advantage, effectively muzzling many of Clintons' most harsh and outspoken critics.
Ensuing investigations into Waco were whitewashed (including the Congressional one), and the idea that the Murragh Building bombing had already extracted reprisal for Waco took the wind out of any prosecutorial sails.
The MSM participated with a vengeance, to the point that CNN ran commercials over questions asked by Republicans during the first couple of hours of hearings, and only came back to the feed for Chuck Shumer's histrionics. (Five minute rule)
C-Span ran the ongoing hearings, or at least excerpts, at the end of the normal business of the House, which began anywhere from 6PM to 10PM and ran during the night. The scheduling made it virtually impossible to view or record the Waco hearings. Even an 8 hour tape might not get the whole thing).
Americans, not wanting to deal with the carnage, nor the inevitable feeling (and knowledge) that their government agencies had done something terribly wrong, simply ignored it and let it go away, the political equivalent of a three year-old holding their hands over their ears and going "LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA".
The inescapable remains, that these types of incidents have been going on for some time, many appear to have been intentionally quashed in the media, and they will not only continue as long as there are more terrorists out there, but that the American people (and other nationalities who ignore the threat) will be happy to be ignorant of the danger.
Official investigations will continue to play the incidents down, whether legitimately to not interfere with ongoing investigations, or, more likely, to not disturb the general 'feelgood' that gets politicians elected.
I guess I'd rather be a safe 'crackpot conspiracy theorist' than dead.