They do, actually.  &quot;Never let a good crisis go to waste.&quot;<p>As morally abhorrent as most of us may find the practice of profiting on human suffering to be, we often forget that there are people out there whose morality is almost entirely incompatible with our own, or who lack any sense of morality whatsoever.  For a variety of reasons, those same-species parasites are drawn to positions where they can manipulate overly credulous humans for their own gain.<p>These propaganda campaigns are roughed out ahead of time, like a Mad Lib, and the details are filled out after any relevant crisis occurs, with any inconvenient facts stretched out and re-tailored to fit the narrative structure.<p>It&#x27;s not a conspiracy.  Those people are not working together.  They just coincidentally fired their bullets on the pull of the same trigger.<p>The terrorists didn&#x27;t use Bitcoin?  Well, in that case, imagine how much worse it could have been if they did use it!  They didn&#x27;t use encryption?  How many more would have died if they did?