Suggested reading: http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=861610 Video for the lazy Public comments on the report: http://www.nist.gov/el/disasterstudies/wtc/upload/combined2008publicComments.pdf For good measure, link to full text of 9/11 commission report, which is fascinating besides being awfully informative:
Thanks for sharing the official documents ghostoffuffle. I assume that you don't agree with any of the inconsistencies mentioned by Architect Richard Gage (and the 2200 architects & engineers backing him) as raised in the post's video?
Yeah, it's a stretch. Everybody's already raised the "why". That's a biggie. If you're gonna be party to conspiracy, you'd better have a damn good reason to go to the trouble and risk the consequences. Given that 9/11 has proven to be our biggest nat'l security black eye since Pearl Harbor, and resulted in not much more than overextension of resources, involvement in two intractable and costly wars, social and political polarization, alienation from several strategic allies... man, this list goes on. Anyhow, that'd make for piss-poor conspiracy. Basically did more than any other wartime act in post-WW2 history to call our world primacy into question. Then there's the fact that UBL wrote and published a manifesto against the United States expressing his intent to orchestrate an attack on American soil, and then he claimed responsibility for 9/11. Then there's all the evidence in favor of that. Beyond all that, yeah, I find the initial NIST report way more plausible on a technical level than the hypotheses put forth by your guy. Especially given that the original report was conducted in concert with a host of independent engineering organizations, and is supported by careful analysis of one of the most widely-documented and well-witnessed disasters of our time. Look, 9/11 was one of those things that was so bad on so many levels that digging through the rubble for conspiracy seems way extraneous. You want to mistrust the government in the face of what happened, fine- look no further than their failure to stop what happened in light of oodles of poorly-shared intel (again, read 9/11 report); their focus on totally pointless military incursion (Iraq) when they should have reserved resources for the important front (Afghanistan); the resulting destabilization of an entire region of the world- the consequences of which me may just be realizing; and their disproportionately draconian national security response, which all but cemented UBL's legacy and absolutely supported his goals. Be mad and mistrustful in light of that. Don't waste your time on the fringe stuff, it's so much less titillating.