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Given:

1. Student explodes near stadium.

2. May have tried to access stadium.

3. Apartment contains additional ordinance.

4. Student attempted to purchase ammonium nitrate.

5. Roommate from Pakistan, who probably knew of the bomber's activities.

Decide, irrevocably, whether this is two or three jihadists one of whom is now dead, or whether these were Al Qaeda players, part of a larger plot.

You cannot. There is not enough evidence here to prove or disprove a conspiracy. Which means your mathematically mandated next move is.....?

Investigation.

Agreed?

Good, I don't want to have to demonstrate the ignorance of any other reply.

Now....policy during the mandated investigation regarding disclosure:

1. Full disclosure prior to conclusions based on fact cannot be made because facts not in possession yet. Stop, we are debating the question of a larger conspiracy, nothing more or less here.

2. Full disclosure will impair the investigation, and will lessen the chances of capturing any additional members of the conspiracy, if they exist.

3. Full disclosure will allow civilians to decide for themselves the true threat level before attending any more football games.

4. Full disclosure will significantly impact gate receipts from college and professional football games for an extended period. If later investigative conclusions show that no larger conspiracy existed, the damage is still irrevocable. The terrorists "win", even in the process of losing.

5. You have roughly one week to investigate before a decision is required. Few games are scheduled during this period. Delaying a decision during this period puts few civilians at risk, and preserves the option of sparing the football industry financial damage until more information can be gathered.

6. For a coverup to exist, the investigative teams have to:

A: Believe that a larger conspiracy did exist, and
B: Place the football industry's well being higher in priority than the people's reasonable right to know of existing threats.

This cannot, mathematically, have happened yet, because the majority of subsequent games, (all college, most professional) have not been played yet.

The only yardstick we currently possess to INDICATE a potential cover-up is past occurrence, which includes the New York subway threat, the threats to Financial Institutions in New York, threats from gasoline tankers, and to gasoline stations, threats to tourists at various locations worldwide, threats from a "dirty" bomb, etc. etc. etc., all of which were DISCLOSED TO THE PUBLIC PRIOR TO ANY CIVILIAN CASUALTIES.

If you want to understand Flight 800, read the flipping book. If you've read the book and still want to disclose the capabilities (and limitations) of the Aegis upgrade,then follow your own conscience, but regardless of your choice, you will not return the passengers of flight 800 to life.

If you want to claim that Timothy McVeigh was a closet Muslim, you will have to debate that with the rest of the tinfoil crowd, because I choose not to waste my time on you.

I'm going to go out on a limb here, and bet that few, if any of the people claiming coverup here have much experience dealing with people who continue working with FEMA, the FBI, the NSA, the Secret Service, the DIA, or the CIA. These people don't talk, not to the media, not to anyone. It is part of the vetting process that decides their entry to the community. Do you prefer otherwise?

These people gather information, they do not distribute it, except up the food chain. Their bosses decide when to release information, they do so with a big picture view, and they do not, ever, wantonly destroy an entire American industry without careful consideration beforehand.

They also do not, as matter of record, hesitate to destroy an entire industry as large as the American commercial airline fleet, if they perceive a credible threat.

Think on that.