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Has the US Government ever blatantly lied to the American people? With documented proof that they lied?

I'm talking documented proof, cold-hard facts that the US government tried to fool its people. Spare me the '9/11 was an inside job' jazz.

Public Comments

1. Probably numerous times, we just haven't seen the documents. I think Roosevelt allowed Japan to bomb Pearl Harbor so we could kick Japans ass and get the war over with.
2. When Clinton killed hundreds of innocent people by bombing an aspirin factory, claiming it was a terrorist group he was after, that was an outright, documented lie.
3. During the Vietnam War. Read up on the 'Pentagon Papers'. Revealed information that was contrary to the currently held facts.
4. check out any american history text. Theres plenty of lies one easy one - Lewis and Clark. When they reached the pacific they found a Hudsons Bay Trading Post that had been there for years. They were far from the first white men to cross the continent. Hoe about wining the War of 1812? Thats a hilarious lie. You invaded Canada, we whupped you, chased you back home and burned the White House to the ground, and yet you say you won. Then there are all the Iraq war lies - the wmds, Saddam's connexion to al-queda. And those lies had been show to be lies while Bush was still telling them - the rest of the world laughed at Powell when he told the story of the mobile weapons vans - which had already been identified on BBC as weather monitoring trucks the british had sold to them!
5. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L6pDyjqqsvY/ST_erjSiwpI/AAAAAAAAXW4/ywMiSMjKXPM/s1600-h/obama+blagojevich.JPG
6. Oh definatly never, why would they even do that?
7. In the case of U.S. v. Reynolds, the government claimed that it could not reveal any information related to the crash of an Air Force plane because the data was classified. In 2005 it came out that the crash was a result of simple negligence, and the government claimed classified data for no reason other than to avoid responsibility.
8. Actually, first poster is correct. A reconaissance plane came across the Japanese Fleet and radioed their position and heading back to base. That info got to the White House at least 45 hours beforehand (nearly 2 days), but no warning was sent to Pearl Harbor. The eventual reason that came out was that the White House didn't believe that the Japanese Admiralty was crazy enough to attack Pearl Harbor, and believed instead they were going after the Phillippines. Which would make sense, as the American Fleet was more than a match for the Japanese Fleet of the time. Except that no warning was sent to the bases in the Phillippines, either. This is documented, and you can find those UNCLASSIFIED documents in the Library of Congress.
9. It always had, and it always will. The government is not your friend, there's no reason for us to say "yes sir!" when ever they tell us to believe, or support something.