Former Bush Team Member Says WTC Collapse Likely A Controlled Demolition And 'Inside Job'

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Former Bush Team Member Says WTC Collapse Likely A Controlled Demolition And

'Inside Job'

Highly recognized former chief economist in Labor Department now doubts

official 9/11 story, claiming suspicious facts and evidence cover-up

indicate government foul play and possible criminal implications.

June 12, 2005

By Greg Szymanski

 

A former chief economist in the Labor Department during President Bush's

first term now believes the official story about the collapse of the WTC is

'bogus,' saying it is more likely that a controlled demolition destroyed the

Twin Towers and adjacent Building No. 7.

 

" If demolition destroyed three steel skyscrapers at the World Trade Center

on 9/11, then the case for an 'inside job' and a government attack on

America would be compelling, " said Morgan Reynolds, Ph.D, a former member

of the Bush team who also served as director of the Criminal Justice Center

at the National Center for Policy Analysis headquartered in Dallas, TX.

 

Reynolds, now a professor emeritus at Texas A & M University, also believes

it's 'next to impossible' that 19 Arab Terrorists alone outfoxed the mighty

U.S. military, adding the scientific conclusions about the WTC collapse may

hold the key to the entire mysterious plot behind 9/11.

 

" It is hard to exaggerate the importance of a scientific debate over the

cause(s) of the collapse of the twin towers and building 7, " said Reynolds

this week from his offices at Texas A & M. " If the official wisdom on the

collapses is wrong, as I believe it is, then policy based on such erroneous

engineering analysis is not likely to be correct either. The government's

collapse theory is highly vulnerable on its own terms. Only professional

demolition appears to account for the full range of facts associated with

the collapse of the three buildings.

 

" More importantly, momentous political and social consequences would follow

if impartial observers concluded that professionals imploded the WTC.

Meanwhile, the job of scientists, engineers and impartial researchers

everywhere is to get the scientific and engineering analysis of 9/11 right. "

 

However, Reynolds said " getting it right in today's security state' remains

challenging because he claims explosives and structural experts have been

intimidated in their analyses of the collapses of 9/11.

 

From the beginning, the Bush administration claimed that burning jet fuel

caused the collapse of the towers. Although many independent investigators

have disagreed, they have been hard pressed to disprove the government

theory since most of the evidence was removed by FEMA prior to independent

investigation.

 

Critics claim the Bush administration has tried to cover-up the evidence and

the recent 9/11 Commission has failed to address the major evidence

contradicting the official version of 9/11.

 

Some facts demonstrating the flaws in the government jet fuel theory

include:

 

-- Photos showing people walking around in the hole in the North Tower where

10,000 gallons of jet fuel supposedly was burning..

 

--When the South Tower was hit, most of the North Tower's flames had already

vanished, burning for only 16 minutes, making it relatively easy to contain

and control without a total collapse.

 

--The fire did not grow over time, probably because it quickly ran out of

fuel and was suffocating, indicating without added explosive devices the

firs could have been easily controlled.

 

--FDNY fire fighters still remain under a tight government gag order to not

discuss the explosions they heard, felt and saw. FAA personnel are also

under a similar 9/11 gag order.

 

--Even the flawed 9/11 Commission Report acknowledges that " none of the

[fire] chiefs present believed that a total collapse of either tower was

possible. "

 

 

-- Fire had never before caused steel-frame buildings to collapse except for

the three buildings on 9/11, nor has fire collapsed any steel high rise

since 9/11.

 

-- The fires, especially in the South Tower and WTC-7, were relatively

small.

 

-- WTC-7 was unharmed by an airplane and had only minor fires on the seventh

and twelfth floors of this 47-story steel building yet it collapsed in less

than 10 seconds.

 

-- WTC-5 and WTC-6 had raging fires but did not collapse despite much

thinner steel beams.

 

-- In a PBS documentary, Larry Silverstein, the WTC leaseholder, told the

fire department commander on 9/11 about WTC-7 that. " may be the smartest

thing to do is pull it, " slang for demolish it.

 

-- It's difficult if not impossible for hydrocarbon fires like those fed by

jet fuel (kerosene) to raise the temperature of steel close to melting.

 

Despite the numerous holes in the government story, the Bush administration

has brushed aside or basically ignored any and all critics. Mainstream

experts, speaking for the administration, offer a theory essentially arguing

that an airplane impact weakened each structure and an intense fire

thermally weakened structural components, causing buckling failures while

allowing the upper floors to pancake onto the floors below.

 

One who supports the official account is Thomas Eager, professor of

materials engineering and engineering systems at MIT. He argues that the

collapse occurred by the extreme heat from the fires, causing the loss of

loading-bearing capacity on the structural frame.

 

Eagar points out the steel in the towers could have collapsed only if heated

to the point where it " lost 80 percent of its strength, " or around 1,300

degrees Fahrenheit. Critics claim his theory is flawed since the fires did

not appear to be intense and widespread enough to reach such high

temperatures.

 

Other experts supporting the official story claim the impact of the

airplanes, not the heat, weakened the entire structural system of the

towers, but critics contend the beams on floors 94-98 did not appear

severely weakened, much less the entire structural system.

 

Further complicating the matter, hard evidence to fully substantiate either

theory since evidence is lacking due to FEMA's quick removal of the

structural steel before it could be analyzed. Even though the criminal code

requires that crime scene evidence be kept for forensic analysis, FEMA had

it destroyed or shipped overseas before a serious investigation could take

place.

 

And even more doubt is cast over why FEMA acted so swiftly since

coincidentally officials had arrived the day before the 9/11 attacks at New

York's Pier 29 to conduct a war game exercise, named " Tripod II. "

 

Besides FEMA's quick removal of the debris, authorities considered the steel

quite valuable as New York City officials had every debris truck tracked on

GPS and even fired one truck driver who took an unauthorized lunch break.

 

In a detailed analysis just released supporting the controlled demolition

theory, Reynolds presents a compelling case.

 

 

" First, no steel-framed skyscraper, even engulfed in flames hour after hour,

had ever collapsed before. Suddenly, three stunning collapses occur within a

few city blocks on the same day, two allegedly hit by aircraft, the third

not, " said Reynolds. " These extraordinary collapses after short-duration

minor fires made it all the more important to preserve the evidence, mostly

steel girders, to study what had happened.

 

" On fire intensity, consider this benchmark: A 1991 FEMA report on

Philadelphia's Meridian Plaza fire said that the fire was so energetic that

'beams and girders sagged and twisted, but despite this extraordinary

exposure, the columns continued to support their loads without obvious

damage.' Such an intense fire with consequent sagging and twisting steel

beams bears no resemblance to what we observed at the WTC. "

 

 

After considering both sides of the 9/11 debate and after thoroughly sifting

through all the available material, Reynolds concludes the government story

regarding all four plane crashes on 9/11 remains highly suspect.

 

" In fact, the government has failed to produce significant wreckage from any

of the four alleged airliners that fateful day. The familiar photo of the

Flight 93 crash site in Pennsylvania shows no fuselage, engine or anything

recognizable as a plane, just a smoking hole in the ground, " said Reynolds.

" Photographers reportedly were not allowed near the hole. Neither the FBI

nor the National Transportation Safety Board have investigated or produced

any report on the alleged airliner crashes. "

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