well yeah its one of the most obvious recent whitehouse conspiracies to increase government control over the us population. straight afterwards the patriot act was passed and the fossil fuel wars started.
this shit happened before in the cold war when the soviet threat was hyped up for decades when russia had actually been weak since the 1960s.
this stuff always goes in cycles, you get a moderate president then a fuckin crazy president then a moderate one and then a crazy one etc
the whole thing was seen as suspicious by the former head of the CIA, as well as many other of bushs early staff, who were promptly fired and told to shut up or else