oil angle?

[John Gulick]

How many of you, when not in the company of conspirary-theory loose cannons
and wingnuts, are willing to seriously entertain the idea that elements 
w/in the CIA deliberately overlooked advance warnings of the 9-11 attacks, 
in order to
justify either a) beefing up counter-intelligence budget and rewriting 
restrictions on special op assassinations and recruitment of human rights 
violating-moles, b) intervening in Afghanistan to engender the "political 
stability" necessary to secure the flow of oil from Central Asia to the 
Indian Ocean, or c) some combination of a) and b) ? To entertain this idea, 
one need not believe that elements within the CIA expected atacks as severe 
(in terms of destruction of human life and property) as those that took 
place on 9-11. One also need not
believe that the Pentagon, the NSC, the State Department and so on had any
knowledge or role in this.

I do not consider raising and trying to answer this question simply a 
matter of idle speculation. I will try and make the political consequences 
of this question
clear in future posts (if I have the time), but I initially I wanted to 
float the idea
in this forum to see if any of you think it has any merit whatsoever.

John Gulick