The most effective way for the actual conspirators to squash the truth would be for them to shower so many bunko conspiracy theories around it that it was effectively buried. With a noise-to-signal ratio high enough, a post that made sense would be effectively buried.
A good example is this post and this thread.
This is a great point. The ignorance displayed in this thread is astounding, really. Even those who are likely to agree with the premise of my post are rabidly spewing noise that drowns the message. Digging for conspiracy theories to make this seem bigger than it is can only serve to make it seem like it's not a big deal when those conspiracies are debunked.
Lets put aside for a moment that both of you mooks are literally claiming that there was a conspiracy here under the Obama administration as you cry cry cry about "conspiracy theorists". Lets also put aside the fact that anyone who made these claims you are purporting was called a conspiracy theorist during this whole process, and still even now. Lets also put aside the fact that you Direpup have been rather quiet about this whole situation until there has been enough of a popular outcry for you to grow the nuts to make the claim in public now that it is convenient to speak out.
....
Just so my point is not misunderstood, it is a very general comment about Internet forums. I will put the issue in alternative form. Suppose that people and opinions you really dislike or have a commercial interest in subverting posts to a forum on Huffington Post. You want to destroy the ideas and communications from that forum. There are two options (1) argue the ideas on that forum (2) post nonsense and various garbage ideas
(2) effectively destroys the forum while (1) only brings the conflict between the ideas to the forefront.
(2) when the nonsense reaches a critical level, like 60-90%, people tune the entire forum out.