The government lies because its afraid of what americans will do with the truth. If we all knew the truth of 9-11 just the day after, not only would there not be a war but several very public politicians would be in jail.
With the internet we have the truth at our fingertips, yet nothing has happened or will happen. Look what Snowden brought to light about the NSA, have we done anything about it?

There's also the issue that those in the military have sworn an oath to the constitution and do not consider american citizens their enemy. The military would sooner turn on the government before ever blatantly attacking a city at home. Which is why so many war vets formed their own occupy or have joined/formed armed citizens militias (which is kinda scary to me!).
I hope that's true, but if the people were to all-out revolt you better hope the Military can think for itself without leadership having strategically place out top brass with theirs. Just out of curiosity, how many has the current admin. replaced?

So in the end, the government knows her people are not powerless. The american spirit is still alive, a bit bruised and nasty, but still there. We will protest, fight, and die for our rights. So if the government is tyrannical and wants to maliciously control us (which it sure as hell does) it can only resort to manipulation. Which has been going on for a long long time.
Well you're right about one thing, we're certainly die for them. As an aside I don't want you guys to think I'm a statist, I just believe governments won't change from within due to their size, and we as a people are foolish in believing we can change them from the outside. I mean what are we talking here, anarchy?

Right, and how many drones do you think it would take to completely destroy your entire town?
See the bigger picture?