At UT Austin the expert on Unified Field Theory, Wheeling, is often quoted in the newspapers as saying that the UFT is tens of thousands of years in the future. During which time society will have to focus all its attention on achieving that single goal ~ i.e. giving scientists absolute authority over everything. In order to control this evolution of mankind, they needed a catalyst to give them that kind of authority in the perception of the general population. Facilitating the Twin Tower attacks by disabling the homing beacons and black boxes did just that. They would not have been able to do this, and escape discovery by the massive investigation, unless it was all done without paperwork or any traceable activity. They need this authority – far, far beyond that rationally due to any group – in order to have plausible deniability of Leviathan, and of their symbiotic relationship with it as the Borg.
They will overhaul the entire educational system, from kindergarten to graduate school, to give all intelligent humans an almost genetic respect for authority as whey wield it into the foreseeable future.
A part of the respect of authority regimen is for high level individuals to come under egregious scrutiny for alleged wrongs, but the survive unscathed. Bush’s invasion of Iraq is a case to point; Clinton’s scandalous affair with Monica Lewinski and this other lesser, almost weekly, foul ups; all the way back to Kennedy and Chappaquidick. The same thing happens on the more local scale, but the national scandals are most effective because they show the invincibility of authority under the worse possible circumstances. The inevitable conclusion people make is that authority is always right, criticizing or investigating them is always a waste of time; relax, trust, and get on with your life.