Today is the anniversary of 9/11 - and the Benghazi Embassy Attacks of 2012. As two of the biggest events in recent American history - both have garnered their fair share of conspiracy theories. Some people think that Obama and the CIA purposely prevented forces from rescuing Ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi - while others - 9/11 Truthers - think that the American government may have played a role in the attacks on 9/11. Most people dismiss conspiracy theories as crazy - but the fact is - conspiracy theories can grab the attention of millions and millions of people. So why is that? Why do conspiracy theories tend to spread like wildfire - even when logic is saying otherwise?

Ryan Mauro, The Clarion Project & Ari Rabin-Havt, The Agenda / The Benghazi Hoax join Thom Hartmann. President Obama lays out his strategy to "degrade and defeat" ISIS in a nationally televised address. Is war really the answer here?

Dr. Laurence Steinberg, Temple University/Age Of Opportunity: Lessons from the New Science of Adolescence, joins Thom Hartmann. We all know the stereotype: the unemployed millennial living at home with his parents, more interested in taking Instagram photos than getting a real job - does this match up with reality? What does Dr Steinberg’s research about young people these days tell us about the very concept of adolescence? What about the concept of adulthood?

Horace Cooper - National Center for Public Policy Research & Andrew Kloster, The Heritage Foundation join Thom Hartmann. Switzerland is considering giving Edward Snowden asylum - if he shares more information on the NSA and America's intelligence community. But isn't time to let Edward Snowden come home to the US - and get a hero's welcome for revealing the truth behind America's out-of-control intelligence operations?