Independent WTC1/2/7 Controlled Demolition Probe

[James Madison]

8 House Members View Draft Bill on Independent Science/Tech Probe of WTC 1, 2, 7 Collapses

by Dr. Barbara Ellis

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A draft bill setting up an independent science and technology investigation into the destruction of World Trade Center buildings 1, 2, and 7 to mandate construction- code changes was presented Sept. 16-17 in Washington D.C. by three Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice for consideration to eight House members and the director and staff of the House Science and Technology committee.[1]

The bill proposes a 25-member committee with subpoena power, selected from the national and international community of renown scientists, structural engineers, architects, and other technological specialists including those in demolition, advanced weaponry, and 9/11 first-responders.[2]

The proposed legislation was researched and authored by four members of the Scholars for 9/11 Truth organization from Oregon and Maryland.[3]

The pdf of the suggested bill is at the end of this article.

Presentations were made to science and technology legislative staffers of House members Reps. Rush Holt (D-NJ-12), Jay Inslee (D-WA-1), Walter Jones (R-NC-3), Dan Lipinski (D-IL-3), Jim McGovern (D-MA-3), Ed Markey (D-MA-7, Dana Rohrabacker (R-CA-46), and John Tierney (D-MA-6). Two are members of the House Science and Technology committee: Lipinski is vice chair, and Rohrabacker is the third-ranking Republican. Only one staffer (Tierney’s) was disinterested. Another (Rohrabacker’ s) asked the presenters for an additional hour of discussion.[4]

The bill’s aim is to investigate the 14 major theories about what destroyed WTC 1, 2, and 7 that have been widely circulating nationally and internationally since September 2001, and, secondly, to urge Congressional action to mandate federal building-code changes for high-rise buildings (115+ feet ) both before construction or in remodeling the more than the existing 16,000.[5]

They made three points in the presentation:

• That determination of the cause(s) of WTC 1, 2, 7 collapses are vital for a federally mandated national change in building codes for high-rise structures consistent with the investigation’ s findings.

• That previous investigations on the collapses were either significantly limited, as was that of the 9/11 Commission in 2004 and the Federal Emergency Management agency (FEMA) in 2002. Two later studies by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)—2005 on WTC 1/2 and 2008 on WTC 7— at an estimated public cost of $50 million have been judged by scientific and technical experts to be significantly limited, biased, and heavily flawed in fundamental research methods.[6]

• That both national and international demands are growing for a substantive science and technology investigation by an independent group to determine the collapse cause(s).

If this proposed bill—with a $10 million price tag—is accepted by one or several House members, it will be revised for hoppering in the next session of Congress and presumably assigned to the 40-member House Science and Technology committee for hearings and a vote. If passed, it will move to a House floor vote and, from there, to the Senate committee for the same process. If signed into law by the next President, the House committee will select 25-member investigation group giving it subpoena power to probe the 14 theories of collapses to determine the cause(s). They will have a six-month deadline to issue a report on findings for recommendations to Congress mandating federal codes for developers, builders, and remodelers of high-rise buildings.

The draft bill’s origins stemmed from 2007 correspondence between Joel S. Hirschhorn, Ph.D. and Oregon attorney Virginia Ross. Hirschhorn was a former professor of engineering at the University of Wisconsin/Madison before becoming a Capitol Hill veteran as a senior associate at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. He was involved in providing expertise, drafting bills, and appearing in hearings as an expert witness on technology issues. Ross is former Air Force officer and an expert and lecturer on 9/11 events, and member of the Portland 911 Truth Alliance organization.

The two were among the thousands of science and technology experts questioning as limited, significantly flawed and largely implausible preliminary reports on the WTC collapses issued by FEMA and NIST indicating fire was the cause. This conclusion has even run counter to President George Bush’s press- conference statement in mid-September 2006 that “explosives” might have been planted in the three buildings. To draft and promote a bill to Congress, Ross contacted Portland’s three Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice: Barry Ball, Barbara G. Ellis, Ph.D., and Warren Pease.[7]

Their draft bill took months of research, discussion, and writing before the final draft was sent for review and changes to Hirschhorn and 22 nationally recognized experts either on the 9/11 event or renown in the scientific and technological fields about the collapses. Among them were three other Scholars in the vanguard of science and technology field issuing the initial adverse verdicts on NIST’s August 2008 report about the WTC 7.[8]

The last step was determining which of the 435 U.S. House members might have interest in and/or expertise in building-code safety regulations or in settling the 9/11 controversy concerning the WTC collapses. That involved a content analyses of every bill that members hoppered from January 2007 to August 2008 regardless of party affiliation. They followed up by the September trip to Washington, D.C. to talk to the Representative’ s science and technology legislative assistants.

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Dr. Ellis is the principal of Ellis & Associates, LLC, a writers group in Portland OR, a nominee for a Pulitzer Prize in history in 2004, and a former journalism professor at Louisiana's McNeese State University and Oregon State University. She is an active member of the South Side DFA MeetUp Group of Portland and a Scholar for 9/11 Truth & Justice as well as the PDX 9/11Truth Alliance.

http://www.opednews .com/articles/ 8-House-Members- View-Draft- by-Barbara- Ellis-081018- 925.html

[gareth]

http://stj911.org/press_releases/Misrepresentation.html

[TonyGosling]

Awaiting the 'much better bill' with interest.
Another great initiative.

[James Madison]

[gareth]

[dewstru]

Why this violent opposition to theories that exotic weaponry caused the two towers to turn into dust fountains as we all witnessed ith our own eyes? totally unpecedented structural failure gravity collapses?

I don't get it!?!

[gareth]

[dewstru]

At the risk of again being accused of complicity with the 9/11 guilty endeavouring to discredit and divide people who question the official 9/11 story, go look at film of the WTC1 720ft 'spire' momentarily left standing after the north tower collapse' vaporise. Are people saying It fell into a 720 ground level hole that suddenly appeared causing it to fall UPRIGHT?

[gruts]

lol - is "vaporised" the same as "dustified" - or has the "theory" changed?

[James Madison]

[James Madison]

[James Madison]

[dewstru]

[gruts]

[dewstru]

Well what does 220 storeys x 1 acre construction steel look like in collapsed form? even if some fell in a large radius, a bit more than a couple of feet in height I suggest. Obvious question but was there ever a proper audit of the salvaged WTC1 and 2 steel?

[gruts]

how about answering my questions instead of avoiding them?

what exactly do you mean by "vaporised"? is it the same as "dustified" - or has the "theory" changed?

and if such a huge amount of steel was turned to dust, you'd expect the iron content of the wtc dust to be pretty significant.

could you please show me some evidence that it was?

as I said above, I couldn't find anything about this issue on judy wood's website. and as it's somewhat fundamental to the credibility of her "theory" that really is quite amazing.

do you think she might be avoiding this area of investigation for some reason, or did it just not occur to her?

[dewstru]

How about YOU answering the question "how does a 720ft core section fall UPRIGHT unless a 720ft hole has suddenly formed to accomodate this fall?" (the WTC went down 6 storeys to bedrock I understand)

How about YOU answering the question what does 220 1 acre floors of structural steel look like in collapsed form and was it all audited and accounted for in the salvage operation?

I don't know why you've got this apparent neurotic hangup about the speculative terms dustification and vapourisation, seems like semantics to me. Fetzer has described what we all clearly saw happened to the 'spire' as "turned to anti-matter" I've heard said(by someone I suspect was a genuine shill tho').

How much of the dust rose into the upper atmosphere, is this usual with thermate/ite controlled demolition?

[gruts]

your questions have already been discussed to death in the "controversies" section.

on the other hand I've never seen any evidence whatsoever that the wtc dust contained significant quantities of iron. if you have any, please post it. I'm not holding my breath though....

[dewstru]

These questions may have been discussed "to death"on the controversies forum but I'm not holding my breath waiting for Y-O-U to A-N-S-W-E-R them

I understand Dr Wood disputes the validity of the WTC dust samples officially taken as they were corrupted a days heavy rain altering their composition.Doesn't she theorise much material was reduced to 'nanoparticles' and floated to the upper atmosphere? the WTC tower aluminium facias and paper didn't seem to be affected by whatever brought down those towers.

I think we're all agreed plain old gravity didn't cause the curious mode of those collapses.

[James Madison]

[Stefan]

dewstru,
You're speaking as though the lowest part of the "spire" we see is at ground level - it's not - it falls out of view behind buildings which in London or any other city would dwarf everything else around. We don't know how it behaves once out of site -

As has been said - talk a walk around controversies and you will find all of this explained...

[James Madison]

[dewstru]

Sorry none of you have convinced me, Stefan seems to be saying the WTC1 'spire' fell into a mid air hole??? we see it fall UPRIGHT the 13 floors above WTC7 and half the height appx' of building seven 23.5 + 13=36.5 floors=438 feet UPRIGHT till the pulverisation cloud conceals it, the towers went down 72 ft appx' to bedrock.

Dr. Wood's 9/11 theories match the facts better than anything I've heard to date, check out the youtube '9/11 the new hiroshima', before I saw it I was like you people mouthing 'spacebeams' and 'screwball' etc anytime anyone mentioned Dr.Wood. I don't think there's any proof she's a shill, the youtube 'Hutchison effect and 9/11 part 1g' reveals how Mike Rudin tried to recruit her for the WTC7 BBC hitpiece, but she told him what to do with himself!

[politicstahl]

What is onservable about the spire is that it retains its approximate shape while it moves vertically downward, just as Building 7 did. While an otherwise unexplained 'hole' might account for this motion, a more familiar explanation might be that the bottom portion was being converted from a solid to, in effect, a fluid, just as in Bldg. 7. What seems inexplicable without resort to Hutchison-type effects is the fact that it visibly becomes less solid-appearing, and apparently turns to dust or smoke while moving downward and more or less retaining its shape.