>O'Neill was deeply in debt, his high-flying lifestyle exceeding his FBI
>income. He hobnobbed with the high an mighty but apparently insisted on
>picking up his own tabs, which he obviously couldn't afford. The lucrative
>WTC job offer came at a time when he was getting nowhere at the FBI either
>in terms of the ObL investigation or promotion-wise, for which he was passed
>up. The reason he was passed up is the briefcase incident, which has all the
>hallmarks of a setup. Maybe not, maybe it was just luck that the case got
>stolen from a conference room during O'Neill's momentary absence, and later
>turned up with its top secret, extremely sensitive contents intact. In any
>case, even O'Neill's boss Mawn agrees that leaking the incident to the press
>was a DC job intended to harm O'Neill, especially considering the FBI has
>still to account for a large number of missing laptops containing sensitive
>info. So O'Neill took the WTC job. I haven't been able to discover who
>arranged the job but can anyone say it's unlikely O'Neill was being set up?
And it was devilishly clever of Bush & Co. to arrange for those planes to hit the WTC, thereby killing O'Neill *and* offering the perfect pretext for a pipeline war in one swell foop. Damn, that ruling class is clever!
Doug