manna for conspiracists

Joe R. Golowka joeG at ieee.org
Wed Jan 9 15:49:51 PST 2002



> That knee jerked again, lodging foot in mouth in a way that will prove
> increasingly embarassing to its owner.
>
> 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?
>
> Source: http://www.nymag.com/page.cfm?page_id=5513&position=1

That's still not proof of your claim.



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