The entire two sided argument -- "inside job" vs. "non-inside job", hinges around the supposition that there are clear and hard lines that define government.
In this day and age, there are no such clear and hard lines. Defense contractors are stock companies traded on Wall Street.
Security contractors, same thing. Data munching companies, same thing. Corrections industries, same thing.
But the government, that thing we have been "drowning in the bathtub" for the better part of forty-five years, is utterly dependent upon them.
All of these groups had been hammering away for well over a half century for increased surveillance, curtailment of rights and freedoms, and a big ticket to a global war that they could milk for decades for profit.
On September 11th 2001, they all got what they wanted, and then some.
The old adage about following the money rings truer than it ever has, and when you ask if hundreds of thousands in government can be held to a standard of secrecy and find it doubtful, one only has to look over at the corporate world to notice that it works flawlessly every single day. And that is why corporate espionage almost dwarfs the other kind.
Simply put, "the government", that is to say, "the G-men" and the numerous public servants and our elected leadership did not "do 9/11". It wasn't "planned" in some secret star chamber in the bowels of Washington's government.
It was a calculated risk that had been well known for many many years, and tacitly acknowledged, and the scenarios that would arise after such a disaster had been discussed at length for decades, not in the halls of government but more importantly, in the board rooms of those outfits which would profit from it.
An
"oops" we let it happen "accidentally on purpose" scenario boils down to a business decision, not a government conspiracy, and when you have top elites in government who are ping ponged back and forth between government and the defense-military industrial-corrections-security complex, you have an environment where, officially speaking, no one would want such a scenario to happen, but
"if it ever did, we would know what comes next".
And what DID come next...The Patriot Act, a monstrous defense allocation of trillions, a global "conflict" not designed to achieve a victory in terms of remaking the map but instead of "managing the conflict in dollar terms" for the benefit of those in the business of war. And a fear riddled, compliant public who were ready to accept the edicts of a strongman.
What did come next...exactly what The Project for the New American Century "advertised for" when they said:
Further, the process of transformation [of the military], even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event––like a new Pearl Harbor.
Their whitepaper was indeed basically a "classified ad" hoping to stir up precisely the kind of extremist malcontent who would gather the funds necessary to pull off such an attack.
But the PNAC wasn't "the government" at all, it was a privately run think tank, one of many.
And today the number of like minded think tanks has exploded on an exponential level, giving rise to even more staggering number of filthy ideas aimed directly at sabotaging national security, freedom, and the ability of ordinary Americans to practice self-determination and critical thinking.
9/11 was not an inside job, it was just
"the job" and all that was required from government was to look the other way for a few moments, or a few years. 9/11 was the fulfillment of a laundry list or wish list from players in the game.
The prospect of a decades long period of manageable peace and stability was not only terrifying to them, it was also an unthinkable blow to their financial portfolio.
And they largely got what they wanted, and we paid for it.
We did 9/11 to ourselves.