Former Bush-team member says the unthinkable

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."

for more info that discusses the probability of 9/11 U.S. government complicity, check out www.septembereleventh.org and investigate the findings of Professor/Theologian/Author David Ray Griffin.

For more informative articles, go to www.arcticbeacon.com. Greg Szymanski

 

how you sad fucks can read this and not reply is fucking digusting. There are growing allegations from rising evidence that YOUR OWN GOVERNMENT was complicit in the 9/11 attacks and ALL of you gloss over this as if it's just another useless thread.

If and when the police state comes to fruition, you will DESERVE to be a slave...and to be sure, you'll be WILLING slaves...probably even denying the fact that slaves are what you indeed are.

WAKE UP

 

Just watch, man. That guy will be dead by the end of the year.

 

dude! chill out for a minute, only 16 people have viewed this thread, including me, so don't worry about people not posting replies so soon, it's not cause they don't care.

Moving on, I agree with you. Some scary shit went down on 9/11, and I definitely do not believe the "official" story. Unfortunately, most people that hear of this will probably blow it off as a conspiracy theory. Every year we have more and more of our rights taken away. At the last presidential inauguration, the US military was working police duty and security. Does this not scare anyone???

 

ChanginTimes, where did you get that article?

 

Honestly, perhaps the major reason why people didn't reply is because this theory has been out there since 9/12 from a number of 'experts'. Our nation has drank the koolaide - can't possibly comprehend that our government could do something so shameful - despite history that points to the contrary such as the declassafied operation north woods plan during the Kennedy administration.

If indeed this was an inside job, the fact that it was allowed to happen contributes to the same fact that would allow it to never be proved true in a court of law.

Whether it happened like this man (and many others) claims or not - its all tabloid fodder - for all the american public knows, aliens are kept alive for scientific experiments in area 54, walt disney has been preserved as a robot and the moon is made of cheese. It's Hollywood baby!!!


and please, no personal attacks about my sarcasm. I lost my college roomate in the World Trade Center, so I do follow all the information quite closely. I just fully believe that the american public has drank the koolaide for the most part. The government can call a squirrel a duck and the american people will buy it.

 

people are generally like sheep - easily led...

 

reading this thread has really pissed me off, i cant believe that our goverment was involved on the attacks on 9/11. damn you george bush.

 

I think few have replied because this isn't really news anymore, not to hipforums, anyways. I see threads like this all the time.

anyways, I've long been convinced this was a government job, there are so many points where their story doesn't add up. It's truly disgusting.

 

We're not replying because this conspiracy theory is for gullible fools. We've been over and over this stuff and no longer have any interest is debating the true believers who are incapable of even the slightest amount of scepticism.

Why do I care if a former labour department economist doubts the official story? Do labour department economists have a special insight into structural engineering?

How was he part of the Bush "team"? Are labour department economists senior members of the administration? Obviously not.

What inside information does he have? None, nor does he even claim to have any. He's just one more sucker that is repeating the same nonsense from the same conspiracy theory websites than every other conspiracy theorist is repeating.

 

Don't forget, easily frightened! The truth IS, you CAN'T crash a plane, and control the fall of a steel, glass and concrete building THAT tall.

 

Are you referring to me? If so...you almost sound as though you are HOPING for what you said. Watch what YOU say, sir.

Pointbreak, thankfully, your opinions have become nothing more than obsolete...outdated...in the trash.

 

"Unfortunately, most people that hear of this will probably blow it off as a conspiracy theory"

Well, not so much anymore...thanks for Dr. David Ray Griffin. But even so, they believe the official conspiracy theory, don't they? Ya know, the theory that 19 hijackers with box-cutters out-tricked our trillion-dollar military defense system...

 

But only NOW...the 9/11 Truth movement is rapidly gaining momentum. So much so that C-SPAN2 (which is national tv) aired Professor David Ray Griffin's lecture at the University of Wisconsin less than 2 months ago and since, describing in graphically vivid detail the horrendeous lies of the 9/11 Commission Report.

Read Mr. Griffin's book "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions". This movement is growing...THAT's the difference.

 

If you continue to stick to the echo chambers populated by true believers, you'll probably remain under that delusion. But in a few years you'll find that your 'growing movement' seems to grow and grow yet never get anywhere, and eventually finds itself resigned to its place among all the other conspiracy cults with their time travelling, shape shifting lizard people and whatnot.

 

Dude...ChanginTimes...I was REFERRING TO THE GD GUY IN THE ARTICLE!!!...meaning that the "former Bush team member that made those allegations would probably end up missing or dead within a year. NOT YOU!!
Man, you are very intelligent and you have a gift for getting people riled up...but in the process YOU tend to jump on people's asses ALOT. Take it easy man, after all....it's all just words on a screen.

Peace

 

Strange isn't it that although the gov't announced within a few hours the identities of the hijackers, they don't have any pics of them?
Even before 9/11, everytime you went into an airport you were photographed/taped numerous times.
Yet the only pics they have of the hijackers were taken from an airport 2 of the hijackers were in to take a connecting flight to the airport where they boarded a plane they hijacked.
None of the alleged hijckers had the expertise to fly a large passenger aircraft with pin-point accuracy to crash into a building.
Transcripts between the towers and the planes were never released, niether were the info on the black boxes, which were recovered intact in at least 2 cases.
I've seen lots of pics of the damage to the plane supposedly crashed into the pentagon. Apparently the plane had no wings, because there is no damge that allows for the wings.
Initially the explosion was referred to as a truck bomb.