Well, it was an inside job inasmuch that all that Nixon/Goldwater nation building horseshit came home to roost. Beyond that, I'm not too sure. Maybe a bunch little "conspiracy-lets" that include using nationalistic paranoia and isolationism to co-opt rational discourse. That would enable (they're still there, don't think they're not) the dark doinkuses of War for profit to prop a field day for the military industrial complex. That's not the entire government, just the extreme right wing. The only niggling detail is that it was done right out in the open.

Hide in plain sight conspiracy. I guess it's the new Black in Coups d'Etat.

Of course it worked Adolph and the gang. Just like in that Star Trek episode, why not copy the Titanic complete with the lies?

See:

Leo Strauss

Project for the New American Century

etc.,etc.,etc.

And yes. For the record. I like Big Butts.