9-11/official/reports/NIST

Overview

The NIST's report on 9/11 has received widespread criticism for its apparent deep flaws.

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Quotes About

• Fire Engineering magazine editor calls the NIST investigation "half-baked farce"... "a full-force, full-throttle investigation is necessary"

Objections

• did not mention WTC7 at all
• only addresses sequence of events up to the initiation of collapse, does not attempt to explain the collapse itself (how is this useful?)
  • the collapse itself is waved away as "inevitable", regardless of any historical precedent
• UL investigator Kevin Ryan pointed out that tests NIST hired UL to do heated (something) to 2000° for up to 2 hours and only resulted in sag of 4 inches, but NIST used a sag of 42 inches in their simulation

Links

Analysis

• 2005-12-08 (v1.0) Building a Better Mirage "NIST's 3-Year $20,000,000 Cover-Up of the Crime of the Century" by Jim Hoffman