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host · 03-19-2007, 06:15 AM

To his credit....at the Dec., 2006 NIST meeting, Atty Jerry Leaphart does an impressive job, in his public comments, posted on the NIST website, of mocking NIST for it's still incomplete "study" and it's "findings and recommendations" with regard to the collapse of WTC towers 1 and 2, and he observes that NIST is avoiding citing it's own WTC 1 and 2 "progressive collapse" findings and recommendations:
http://wtc.nist.gov/media/LeaphartStatementDec2006.pdf

NIST has "revised" the expected release date of it's report on the reasons for the collaps of WT7, from "early 2007", until "spring 2007". This report is two years behind what was issued in 2005, for public comments, as the "final report" on the collapse of the WTC towers.

IMO, the delays are becoming a "joke". Five years to issue a vital report, from the standpoint of potential remedial action with regard to existing and new tower design and construction?

....and we've heard every excuse for the delays imaginable, from NIST, even that they did not want to increase the size of their staff to do their investigation of the unprecedented collapse of steel high rise towers from fire, so they claim that they postponed an "in depth" analysis of the WTC 7 collapse, instead. No urgency here, and no NIST credibility.

I'm observing though, that newcomers here are posting new threads, and that is good, but they aren't following the posting guidelines in structuring their thread OP's in a way that would state their own positions and encourage comments....and this OP is another example of that shortcoming.

Can we chalk up the failure....the long delays and inconsistencies from NIST as more of that "can do" spirit in the US government of the current era...ala FEMA vs. Katrina, the Walter Reed hospital "mess", the lack of armor and equipment "for the troops", the failure of air defense response on the AM of 9/11, Scooter Libby....a man who was assigned....simultaneously.... the jobs of COS to the VP, National Security advisor to the VP, and special assistant to the POTUS, on National Security, but who had a memory that he paid his lawyers to describe as so faulty, that he could not even remember that the VP told him that Plame was CIA....yet he swore to a grand jury that "Russert told him".....

....or is this like the FBI....losing track of how many phony "national security letters" it issued, to do an end run around the 4th amendment requirement of search warrants, signed by a judge, or the DOJ, firing 8 US attorneys because of their "performance shortcomings".....no wait....it wasn't because of their performance.....it was....and on, and on, and on......

Would a "liberal press", let NIST "stonewall" "what happened on 9/11", with so little comment or coverage?

03-19-2007, 06:15 AM	#166 (permalink)
host Banned	To his credit....at the Dec., 2006 NIST meeting, Atty Jerry Leaphart does an impressive job, in his public comments, posted on the NIST website, of mocking NIST for it's still incomplete "study" and it's "findings and recommendations" with regard to the collapse of WTC towers 1 and 2, and he observes that NIST is avoiding citing it's own WTC 1 and 2 "progressive collapse" findings and recommendations: http://wtc.nist.gov/media/LeaphartStatementDec2006.pdf NIST has "revised" the expected release date of it's report on the reasons for the collaps of WT7, from "early 2007", until "spring 2007". This report is two years behind what was issued in 2005, for public comments, as the "final report" on the collapse of the WTC towers. IMO, the delays are becoming a "joke". Five years to issue a vital report, from the standpoint of potential remedial action with regard to existing and new tower design and construction? ....and we've heard every excuse for the delays imaginable, from NIST, even that they did not want to increase the size of their staff to do their investigation of the unprecedented collapse of steel high rise towers from fire, so they claim that they postponed an "in depth" analysis of the WTC 7 collapse, instead. No urgency here, and no NIST credibility. I'm observing though, that newcomers here are posting new threads, and that is good, but they aren't following the posting guidelines in structuring their thread OP's in a way that would state their own positions and encourage comments....and this OP is another example of that shortcoming. Can we chalk up the failure....the long delays and inconsistencies from NIST as more of that "can do" spirit in the US government of the current era...ala FEMA vs. Katrina, the Walter Reed hospital "mess", the lack of armor and equipment "for the troops", the failure of air defense response on the AM of 9/11, Scooter Libby....a man who was assigned....simultaneously.... the jobs of COS to the VP, National Security advisor to the VP, and special assistant to the POTUS, on National Security, but who had a memory that he paid his lawyers to describe as so faulty, that he could not even remember that the VP told him that Plame was CIA....yet he swore to a grand jury that "Russert told him"..... ....or is this like the FBI....losing track of how many phony "national security letters" it issued, to do an end run around the 4th amendment requirement of search warrants, signed by a judge, or the DOJ, firing 8 US attorneys because of their "performance shortcomings".....no wait....it wasn't because of their performance.....it was....and on, and on, and on...... Would a "liberal press", let NIST "stonewall" "what happened on 9/11", with so little comment or coverage?