I'm usually impressed with HN comments, but this thread is currently dominated by insubstantiated conspiratorial mongering against American institutions.
They started it! Perhaps if they presented some substance people would have more to go on. Do you think anything about USA appears trustable at the moment to those outside?
The problem is of those institutions own making. Many Americans lost their lives hunting for Saddam’s WMDs - something that was fabricated by said institutions.
“Trust us” is no longer something we can blindly accept.
