You are making my point for me here to the extent that I'm losing sight of what your point is. Because, how do we know everything you just said actually happened? Because they fucked it up. Someone spilled the beans. Someone left the wrong document somewhere. Something went wrong. A cursory investigation opened up a can of worms. Actual evidence was left behind.

What do conspiracy theories (not conspiracy facts) all have in common? Nothing has ever gone wrong. Nobody has ever leaked. Not a single stray piece of material was left out of place. Even conspiracies involving THOUSANDS of people who 100% would've known they were involved with something after the plot (like lmao how many people would've been told to strap Loony Toons dynamite bundles to the WTC on 9/10 but then went 'oh that had nothing to do with me' on 9/11?) all magically just stay completely mum for decades and decades.

You're once again attacking a strawman, Idk any "conspiracy theorist" who believes that any conspiracy is perfectly airtight. All you're doing is, again, poisoning the well against alternatives to mainstream accounts, by setting an impossible damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't question-begging standard of evidence.

If evidence leaks, it wasn't a "real conspiracy," and if it doesn't leak, you have no proof.

Keeping thousands of people from talking isn't the monumental task you think it is. Organized crime syndicates wouldn't exist if it was impossible to keep thousands of people from talking, and these syndicates are experts at leaving behind no concrete proof of their guilt even as circumstantial evidence makes it obvious what happened. There's that whole thing about how sometimes you know something you can't prove, like what happened to Jimmy Hoffa.

And it's even worse when you're talking about a government with control over the media. Any 9/11 whistleblower would be dismissed as crazy or a liar by people like you, any documents they produced would be dismissed as fabricated, everything they said would be nitpicked, and if they mysteriously wound up suicided it would be yet another "conspiracy theory" to say that probably wasn't a suicide.

The number of conspiracy theories that have become conspiracy fact is almost zero, despite what they like to claim. Many "conspiracy theories" they take credit for were never actual theories at the time (Iraq WMDs), and a bunch of them (like Gulf of Tonkin) was broken by CONGRESS.

There was a time when the Italian mafia's very existence was dismissed as an urban legend rooted in anti-Italian prejudice, mob-connected union leaders even managed to get the FBI to stop using the word "mafia" for a moment because it was allegedly derogatory towards Italians. Back then "urban legend" had a very similar connotation to "conspiracy theory."

People in Western countries didn't by and large believe the reports of Nazi and Soviet atrocities until way, way later, or at least thought that such reports were wildly exaggerated. The existence of Unit 731 was officially denied in Japan for decades because the US classified the evidence proving it happened, as part of a deal to get Japanese scientists to help us research bioweapons. Only when some Japanese journalists managed to get that info declassified did it come to light, and most of the people involved in Unit 731 were dead by then.

Nevermind Epstein and his island being dismissed as a conspiracy theory until recently.