Let’s look at the range of possibilities:
On one end of the spectrum…The Bush Administration for WHATEVER reason, be it that it was an inside job sanctioned by the White House or that it was pulled off by Saudis and the Bush Administration hid the truth to avoid embarrassment and loss of lucrative relationships with oil barons…whatever reason there was, let’s assume Bush and co were hiding something, and the media was afraid to say anything bad about the President because of fear. Now, Bush is over a year gone and they’re no longer afraid to dig up some dirt.
On the other end of the spectrum, let’s point out that it’s been 8½ years (exactly at the time of this writing in fact) and this being the most painful event in the American psyche for most of the people alive today, maybe we’re reaching the point where invoking 9/11 doesn’t automatically provoke a knee jerk faux patriotism which makes some very short sighted and unwilling to even consider the possibility that whatever they think they know could even possibly be wrong.
I guess I think the later is more reasonable, because regardless of whether there was something that didn’t add up or not, this was an event that for people to even wrap their minds around, they had to build a story in their minds, complete with perpetrators, and had the media started to challenge the official story which most people just accepted because it was the easiest way to understand it, whether it’s true or not, it would not have been well met. This event had to recede far enough into memory to be “history” instead of a source of visceral pain before the masses would tolerate any real digging.
In other words, I think it makes sense that we’re seeing this now more than ever and I expect the trend to continue, but I don’t think it has anything to do with whether or not we’ve been lied to in the first place, I consider that a separate issue.