Troublesome News, Fake News, Biased or Incomplete News "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."-Attributed to Abraham Lincoln Mary Jo Bang begins her poem about September with these words: "September is work to the center/Of arguments and controversies./Prejudgments and incomprehensions." 1 Although not explicitly about the 9/11 tragedy, this poem, written in 2007, triggered in me thoughts about the incomprehensibility of that horrific event and how many prejudgments, arguments, and controversies about it persist, including conspiracy theories. 2 We often hear variations of the phrase "History repeats itself," or the French quip "The more things change, the more they stay the same." Looking back at some of the events from 2007 supports the veracity of these views 3 : (1) Adam Air Flight 574 disappeared over Indonesia-all passengers were lost at sea; (2) I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Chief of Staff for US Vice President Dick Cheney, was convicted on a number of counts of perjury and obstruction of justice, and was pardoned in April 2018 by US President Donald Trump 4 ; (3) the US Department of Justice released an internal audit noting that the FBI had acted illegally when it used the post 9/11 Patriot Act to justify obtaining personal data on American citizens; (4) the US Supreme Court, by a one-vote majority, upheld the ban on partial-birth abortions; (5) major earthquakes occurred off the coasts of Japan and Peru; (6) a gunman using a semi-automatic rifle killed people in a mall in Omaha, Nebraska; (7) former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was killed by a suicide bomber; and (8) six cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads were accidently loaded onto a US Air Force bomber and flown over the United States from North Dakota's Minot Air Force base to Louisiana's Barksdale Air Force Base. Troublesome echoes repeat themselves, some identical, others reframed to fit current times and events.