On March 11 and March 13, yours truly published (here and here respectively) criminological reasons for believing that the most reasonable view to hold was that Malaysian Airlines flight 370 was hijacked/stolen. Establishment media figures such as CNN “national security analyst” Peter Bergen dismissed such ruminations as idle conspiracy theorization, stating: Nothing gets conspiracy theorists going more than a passenger plane crashing under mysterious circumstances. In the absence of hard information to explain such disasters, people look for answers, and the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 early Saturday could prompt the same response. Please notice Bergen’s crass, conclusory assumption, for which there was zero “hard information” at the time, that 370 had crashed. So what are skeptics like Bergen saying now? On March 14, Peter Bergen and Judd Smith asked in a headline “Did someone takeover Flight...(Read Full Post)