I’m not sure Carter was fooled by anyone. Reports have been around for years that he was on the MidEast oil dictatorships’ payroll for many years, going back to his time as Georgia governor. It’s not hard to believe the same for those liberal pols who have been trying so hard to pervert the course of energy independence for so long; people, in my opinion, like Boxer, Markey, Waxman and so many others on the Lucrative Left.
His brother was on Qadaffi’s payroll.
Jimmy was getting Iraqi oil for food money via two American middle men- Samir Vincent and Khafaji, IIRC, right up to the war.