For people paying attention to the evidence, the writing has been on the wall for many years-- enough to build credible, defensible, strong suspicions, at least. Of course, these people have been slandered in perpetuity by the government, who stands to gain stability from the "rationalist" suspicions seeming ridiculous. The confirmatory value of these reveals cannot be understated: a subset of the people who have been much maligned as "conspiracy theorists" were in fact reasonable in their assumptions and correct in their hunches.

If these evidence-attenders and conspiracy theorists were maligned as being on the lunatic fringe up until recently and were fully exonerated, what else could they have been right about? This question has the government running scared, scrambling to reassure the public that the now-redeemed former crackpots are still off the rocker, and have nothing else that is relevant to say about things which the public doesn't yet believe.

The public failed these conspiracy theorists because they accepted the establishment friendly line that they were kooky-- the public accepted the false associations and intentional counfoundment made between people with legitimate but not mainstream ideas backed with evidence, and various cultish, indefensible fantasy theories like aliens controlling the government, and the moon landing being faked. Thankfully, the public received a gut shot when Snowden went public with the truth. Maybe next time people will listen a bit closer to voices that the government would love to suppress.