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While the mis-management is obvious, the idea that this is an organized scam falls apart on one simple basis: Nobody could organize something like that on this level, and if they did, too many people would know about it and somebody would talk. It's like the grand conspiracy that NASA didn't really land on the moon. If it were true, and everything we saw was faked, two things would have happened...one back then and one since then. First, the Russians would have been able to figure out the landings didn't really happen, and they certainly wouldn't have kept their knowledge secret. Second, too many people would have been involved, and somebody would have spilled the beans.
Inept, screw-up, mis-managed, poorly designed? Yup, probably all those things and more. An organized scam? Highly unlikely. Just too many people would have to be in on it, and somebody would talk.
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