9/11-Truthers Confront NIST During Whitewash Conference

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9/11-Truthers Confront NIST During Whitewash Conference

Postby st4 » Sun Jun 26, 2005 9:05 pm

<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>From total911.info</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>9/11-truthers confront NIST at WTC-collapse whitewash conference<br></strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>Saturday, June 25, 2005<br><br>The Commerce Department's National Institute for Standards and Technology has been in charge of manufacturing fantastical scenarios under which the collapse of the World Trade Center towers were anything but a planned, controlled demolitin. They held a public briefing on Thursday, June 23. From <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/911TruthAction/">911TruthAction's</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> AJ Ward at alia, Jun 23:<br><br><!--EZCODE LIST START--><ul><li>The NIST WTC review press conference was held this morning and <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.iian.ibeam.com/events/thom001/13858/eFrame.jsp">was web-cast</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> called the "NIST Response to the World Trade Center Disaster - Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster"The majority of the presentation was along the standard lines of rhetoric claiming the building's failures due to fire, and their recommendations to improve evacuation. The presenter, Shayam Sunder kept on message, basing his and the NIST's recommendations on the "official" theories of collapse by fire (no mention of the "pancake" theory though). Mostly he pointed to a release of about 10,000 pages of documents that would be available to the public for review and comment on technical issues.The staff of local and international press present followed up the (bland) presentation with some standard questions along the line of "will these recommendations be required on all new and existing high-rise structures" etcetera & blah blah blah.There was one in the press in attendance that managed to ask some very tough questions. With a mild accent [Nico Haupt] addressed several issues that are being asked by the 911 truth movements. Keep in mind that this is a live webcast press conference! His question in about seven parts lasted approximately three minutes. He addressed the "inside job" issue, planned demolition, and several other key points including why WTC 7 isn't going to be addressed by the NIST until later this year in October.During this line of questioning, Mr. Sunder was noticeably uncomfortable and looked down at his podium the entire time. After about a minute of the questions from the unknown press man, the moderator (a burly white gentleman) approached the podium and placed a paper in front of Mr. Sunder which he appeared to read as a response once the inquisitor was finished.Mr. Sunder in his response to the open line of questions expectedly refused to address any points head-on and simply stated (from the paper handed to him) that all of their recommendations are based on the "scientific evidence" and documents that will be available for public comment. He also stated that the [Haupt]'s line of questioning was outside of the scope of the press conference and he had no authority to respond to any of Haupt's questions.OK, so an expected side step, right? Yet, I wonder how many people were watching this live? Obviously most of the viewers would be members of the press and the truth movement folks, but the exposure put forth by Haupt was very encouraging.I fully expect the truth guys to come out of the woodwork when the NIST decides to release their findings on WTC 7. You better! Tune into further developments and press dates at <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://wtc.nist.gov">wtc.nist.gov</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> </li></ul><!--EZCODE LIST END--><br><br>That was at the closed press conference. Following that, there was an open public conference, which featured even more grilling by 9/11 truthers. Another report from <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/911TruthAction/">911TruthAction</a><!--EZCODE LINK END-->:<br><br><!--EZCODE LIST START--><ul><li>Andrea Psoras made that same point [about NIST being part of the Commerce Deparmtnet and not an independent agency] during the question and answer period that ended the public conference.There were a bunch of truth people there, and the NIST spokesmen were grilled on the explosions, the molten steel, Silverstein's admission, collapse speed, and a bunch of other stuff.Naturally, there was also a "9-11 families" plant who claimed to have a "science background," and thanked them for the excellent job they did on the report.I didn't ask any questions, because everything I wanted to question them on was asked by others, but I did get some heckling in, and yelled in his face that he was a liar, and that his report was worthless because it was a lie, which was good because I was in the front row. At one point he claimed that the towers collapsed in 9-15 seconds, and I called him a liar for that too. There were a lot of people heckling them by the end of the conference. There were a lot of people there from 911truth.org (possibly ny911truth.org) who gave them a hard time.[<!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://911forthetruth.com/">WTC rescue hero William Rodrieguez, whom] Phil Berg is now representing</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> was there, and he told everyone about the explosions he heard, and asked why NIST didn't contact him, or address that information, and also why the 9-11 commission didn't either.Like what Nico mentioned happened in the press conference (I was at the public conference), they stressed how much "science" was involved, as if they were sorcerers and no one else was capable of understanding it. He brushed off the molten steel question with bullshit about trapped heat melting steel. I yelled at him "that's four inch thick steel, melted into a puddle," in a sarcastic voice, but he ignored me.The crowd at the public conference seemed to be stacked with truth people, and the NIST guys were heckled nicely, and almost everyone was asking them 9-11 truth questions, except for the 9-11 families plant, and two women who complained about diesel fuel stored in buildings, and the lack of rooftop rescues.</li></ul><!--EZCODE LIST END--><br><br>* Again, here's the link to the archived webcast. Haupt's questions start about 1:23:00 into the program: <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.iian.ibeam.com/events/thom001/13858/eFrame.jsp">www.iian.ibeam.com/events...eFrame.jsp</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Source: <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.total911.info/2005/06/911-truthers-confront-nist-at-wtc.html">www.total911.info/2005/06...t-wtc.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br>The entire NIST presentation is also available for <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://conspiracycentral.net:6969/stats.html?info_hash=a6b363c99dc2b1f8a39fb92559b14c88a2720304">download here</a><!--EZCODE LINK END-->.<br><br>(bittorent client required) <p></p><i></i>
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