I know. They also forget to take into account that humans
   typically do things for stupid, greedy reasons. One-upmanship,
   gloating, getiting more money for your department, your little
   department withholding information from the department above
   within the same organization in order to keep your job security
   intact...

   I mean, if these organizations were all TRUE BELIEVERS in their
   companies/organizations/governments... _perhaps_ conspiracy
   theories _could_ be pulled off.

   But I've worked with government. My mother worked in local
   government and saw the inside. I've worked for Schering-Plough
   for a few years, one of the "Big Pharma" (I think they merged
   with Merck a few years back though)... and the ONLY place where
   the company was "acting as one" is in a single place:

   Public Relations Department.

   Nowhere else.

   Internally, there was scrambling, mishaps, bumbling.

   In short, there's always a "cover up". But...

   .. what they're hiding isn't perfect consistency.

   They're hiding their idiocy.