For once there was a great discussion about this whole fiasco on reddit (yesterday): https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/5j0ahs/us_got_it...

In particular - this comment [https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/5j0ahs/us_got_it...]. I for one was young at the time, but simply didn't know about the office of special plans, for example.