I personally like the way Wood describes how EVERYBODY IN THE NEED TO KNOW GAME have a personal 'sword of Damocles' hanging over them, so they'll do what they're told, without question. You can be sure this is how Big Business and Global Politics is also run, be it the truth.
You can take WITH A MASSIVE PINCH OF SALT all further talk of Project Looking Glass, discussed later in the interview.
Why?
Because the interview starts off telling you what you want to hear, "that 'prior to 9/11' the US Military were actively 'manifesting the war of terror'" so that you'll believe the later (far more spectacular) revelations from 'this guy'.