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Government-Funded Investigators Accused Of WTC Cover-Up
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Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
The American Society of Civil Engineers – an organization that was funded by FEMA to investigate the collapse of the twin towers on 9/11 – has been accused of engaging in a cover-up to protect the government, with critics charging the organization falsified conclusions that skyscrapers could not withstand getting hit by airplanes.
The group has been forced to convene an investigative panel which could lead to a suspension in government funding.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency paid the group about $257,000 to investigate the World Trade Center collapse and their report was released in 2002.
In an attempt to explain away the complete implosion of the twin towers shortly after the planes hit, the study concluded that skyscrapers were not designed to withstand jetliner impacts, a claim completely disproved by historical studies and contemporary investigations.
"Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, a structural engineer and forensics expert, contends his computer simulations disprove the society’s findings that skyscrapers could not be designed to withstand the impact of a jetliner," reports the Associated Press.
"Astaneh-Asl, who received money from the National Science Foundation to investigate the collapse, insisted most New York skyscrapers built with traditional designs would survive such an impact and prevent the kind of fires that brought down the twin towers."
The group are also under scrutiny for their investigation of the failure of New Orleans’ levees during Hurricane Katrina.
Raymond Seed, a levee expert at the University of California, Berkeley, "accused the engineering society and the Army Corps of collusion, writing an Oct. 20 letter alleging that the two organizations worked together "to promulgate misleading studies and statements, to subvert appropriate independent investigations … to literally attempt to change some of the critical apparent answers regarding lessons to be learned."
As we reported last year, architectural drawings of the World Trade Center that prove beyond any doubt that the official reports into the collapse of the towers misrepresented their construction were used by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) during their study, but not before they had signed legal documents which bound them to secrecy and demanded that they never use the information against the buildings’ owners as part of a lawsuit.
The detailed architectural drawings make clear what official reports have apparently attempted to hide: that the Twin Towers had massive core columns, and those columns ran most of the height of each Tower before transitioning to columns with smaller cross-sections. These facts were buried in the FEMA-funded ASCE report and contradictory conclusions were offered despite the fact that the group had access to the diagrams.
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Numerous different World Trade Center designers and construction specialists are on record as having ruled out the possibility that multiple commercial jetliner impacts could bring the towers down. Such comments were made on a regular basis ever since the towers were first conceived and built.
A February 3, 1964 white paper which was written during the design phase of the towers stated, "The buildings have been investigated and found to be safe in an assumed collision with a large jet airliner (Boeing 707 DC 
traveling at 600 miles per hour. Analysis indicates that such collision would result in only local damage which could not cause collapse or substantial damage to the building and would not endanger the lives and safety of occupants not in the immediate area of impact."
During a 1984-85 Office of Special Planning study into the vulnerability of the WTC to a terrorist attack, Leslie Robertson, one of the two original structural engineers for the World Trade Center, assured investigators that whether the towers suffered a bomb attack or were hit by an airplane, there was "little likelihood of a collapse no matter how the building was attacked."
A February 27 1993 Seattle Times article entitled Twin Towers Engineered To Withstand Jet Collision quotes John Skilling, head structural engineerfor the WTC.
"We looked at every possible thing we could think of that could happen to the buildings, even to the extent of an airplane hitting the side," said Skilling.
"Our analysis indicated the biggest problem would be the fact that all the fuel (from the airplane) would dump into the building. There would be a horrendous fire. A lot of people would be killed," he said. "The building structure would still be there."
In a telling afterthought, Skilling said that the only way the building could be brought down was by means of well-placed explosives rigged by top experts.
"I would imagine that if you took the top expert in that type of work and gave him the assignment of bringing these buildings down with explosives, I would bet that he could do it," he said.
In 2001, Leslie Robertson again stated, "The twin towers were in fact the first structures outside the military and nuclear industries designed to resist the impact of a jet airplane."
"I designed it for a 707 to smash into it," he told a conference in Frankfurt Germany.
Also in early 2001, Frank A. Demartini, on-site construction manager for the World Trade Center, said on camera, "The building was designed to have a fully loaded 707 crash into it. That was the largest plane at the time. I believe that the building probably could sustain multiple impacts of jetliners because this structure is like the mosquito netting on your screen door — this intense grid — and the jet plane is just a pencil puncturing that screen netting. It really does nothing to the screen netting."
As investigators have pointed out, immediately after 9/11 Leslie Robertson refused to discuss the collapse of the buildings with the media but he later recanted and agreed with NIST’s conclusions – completely contradicting his previous statements and exhaustive studies carried out since the 60’s about the towers’ ability to withstand jetliner impacts.
Allegations of cover-up directed at The American Society of Civil Engineers are just the latest chapter in a series of hammer blows for the credibility of the official 9/11 story, arriving on the back of last month’s exposé of 9/11 Commission executive director Philip Zelikow’s ties to the White House and his efforts to shield the Bush administration from responsibility for the terror attack.
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March 26th, 2008 at 7:33 am
” the study concluded that skyscrapers were not designed to withstand jetliner impacts, a claim completely disproved by historical studies and contemporary investigations. ”
Not only disproved by that, but by statements from the architects of the twin towers, themselves, who said the buildings were designed to withstand a direct hit by a Boeing 727, the largest plane made at the time. I am very dissapointed and concerned that the organization my father was a member of during his career as a civil engineer would behave this way, but, apparently, the current leadership has been bought off and/or is in league with the NWO, or is being lead by its minions, who have infiltrated ASCE. In either case, this is disgraceful conduct for the leading professional organization for civil engineers.
March 26th, 2008 at 7:39 am
WILL YOU PEOPLE PLEASE STOP IT.
ISN’T IT OBVIOUS WHY THE TOWERS FELL? JETS HIT THEM,PERIOD ,END OF STORY.
OF COURSE THE PEOPLE “I PAID” ARE GOING TO SAY WHAT “I “TELL THEM TO SAY.
YOU DO WHAT YOUR BOSS TELLS YOU TO DO.
ON THE UP SIDE ALL THESE CONSPIRACY THEORIES HELP BOLSTER THE NEED FOR MARTIAL LAW.YOU SHEEPLE NEED TO BE INOCULATED AND LOCKED UP IN NICE COMFY F.E.M.A. CAMPS.
“I” KNOW WHAT IS GOOD FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE,”THEY”DO NOT.
LONG LIVE THE “NEW WORLD ORDER”
March 26th, 2008 at 7:39 am
http://www.asce.org/graphics/9-11.swf
March 26th, 2008 at 8:01 am
Shift change. Cheney dick sucker’s back. Isn’t their a little boy and a puppy tied up for you somewhere to go play with? It’s a cover up plain and simple. Cheney butt lovers doubts and venom prove the flouride and asperthame work wonders on the brain…..(if it’s still up there!).
March 26th, 2008 at 8:01 am
Hey Cheney Cock Sucker, the official story has more holes in it than your hunting buddy. Die old man!
March 26th, 2008 at 8:03 am
My membership in ASCE has expired and I’ve been considering not renewing for a while.
March 26th, 2008 at 8:06 am
Blueglow #3, Good presentation, just wished it was at a slower pace. Another good element about this challenge is that I was able to read the article from AP in my local newspaper and not just on the internet, what a shock!
March 26th, 2008 at 8:09 am
Excellent article!
Thanks for the link to Seattle Times report from ‘93.
Of course we all need to look at ourselves, and no-one should point the finger, but ASCE, members need to take a close look at thier organization. Elements within thier leadership are obviously corrupted.
The ASCE was “bought and paid for” both in the aftermath of 9/11 and the Katrina levee “failures”. Love of money and fear of reprisal may motivate cowards, but devotion to truth and justice motivates a burgeoning culture of info-warriors.
The cowards that have corrupted the ASCE could learn a thing or two about how to be human from architects and engineers for 9/11 truth.
March 26th, 2008 at 8:15 am
I withdraw my comment in #7, reviewing the very fast presentation a second time, it appears to justify the report of ASCE. How rude.
March 26th, 2008 at 8:16 am
VP cheney fan. its not like were all sitting hoverred around the computer sweating spanking off
to the damn trade center. we could care less but that event is the most important thing to happen
in the modern age. Most can’t possibley understand the ramifictions 10 20 100 years down the
road.
So it’s incredibley important that the events on 9.11 are dissected, interpreted, and had answers
pulled from it with judgements made on the guilty parties. only then will people pull their heads from
the sand and begin to realize that the world isn’t what it seems to be 100% of the time.
THE FACT IS
The 9.11 event scares the fuck out of people like you VPcheney fan. With more and more now
“Unknown” variables because of the information that has been presented to them, their plans for
North american union, and a cashless chipped big brother-esque society have been delayed,
irrevocobley tainted. Now they really will have to send us to those fema camps…over my cold
dead body of course
March 26th, 2008 at 8:34 am
THe only “coverup” relating to 9-11 is how right-wingers are able to take an act of revenge for Americas military, economic, and cultural imperialism, and twist the facts so they can blame it on benevolent supporters of world democracy. Since the world has become a global village, it has been easier for countries in distant proximity to dominate each other. America has used exploitation of minorities to create a superpower, so we have choice. In other words, WORLD GOVERNMENT IS ALREADY HERE. Either we can have a democratic world government like the philanthropic Rockefellera and Rothschilds want, or we can have a world Ameriocracy, where white males control everything.
March 26th, 2008 at 8:36 am
#10 JAMES,JAMES,JAMES,9.11 DID NOT “SCARE ME” AS I WAS WELL AWARE OF THE EVENTS SURROUNDING THE ACTIONS OF THE DAY.
“OUR PLANS”HAVE NOT BEEN DELAYED ,WHILE WE HAVE REDIRECTED YOUR FEEBLE MINDS TO OTHER AREAS,WE STILL ARE MOVING FULL SPEED AHEAD WITH THE NEW WORLD ORDER PLANS,FOR EXAMPLE:MAY 2008 EVERYONE IS REQUIRED BY LAW TO OBTAIN A NORTH AMERICAN IDENTIFICATION CARD(REAL I.D.ACT)…WE SIMPLY HAVE USED THE MEDIA TO DIVERT YOUR ATTENTION.
#5 FU: “WE KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE,WORK,SHOP…….YOUR SECOND ON A SHORT LIST
LONG LIVE THE NEW WORLD ORDER
March 26th, 2008 at 8:38 am
i think vp cheney is a satirist , folks
March 26th, 2008 at 8:46 am
College Kid! I missed you
We are discussing 911ism today, right?
March 26th, 2008 at 8:49 am
College Kid, do you want for us (911 Truthers) to be ‘reeducated’ to love the NWO?
March 26th, 2008 at 8:54 am
college kid you need to stop watching and believing faux news. it rots the brain.
March 26th, 2008 at 8:59 am
I think College Kid should read a few more books.
March 26th, 2008 at 9:05 am
College Kid already had his reeducation apparently. He’d take a chip today.
March 26th, 2008 at 9:12 am
VP CHENEY FAN, you’re really a closet truther…. ha, had me fooled, playing the “Devil’s Advocate”.
COLLEGE KID – You should demand a refund from the college you’re going to. Democracy is just another pseudo-intellectual metaphor for “majority-ism” . Study the non-collective history of money, kid, you might give up on this idea that another form of coercive gov’t is better.
March 26th, 2008 at 9:31 am
#19 SHHHHHH HOW AM I TO GET THE “SHEEPLE”ACTIVE IF YOU LET MY TRUE INTENTIONS BE KNOWN!!!!!
March 26th, 2008 at 10:05 am
College kid:
What about morality?
What’s right and what’s wrong?
Do you care?
Do you “go along to get along”? (That’s the fascist way)
Or, are you a principled person?
March 26th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Truthseeker, don’t be rough on The Kid.
Truth and morality were dropped from the curriculum long ago. Just lost their relevance, I guess.
It’s all about GlobalISM. (The Kid loves any word ending with -ism)
March 26th, 2008 at 10:13 am
PS:
Evidence indicates that Rockefellers and Rothschilds were part of the hidden hand not only behind 911, The Federal Reserve, VietNam, but also funding both sides of both world wars.
In fact, Bush’s grandfather, Prescott was in charge of funding Nazi Germany to the tune of 35%.
For a college kid, you need to learn how to think independently, question authority, and especially do some research before you refer to these Rothschilds and Rockefellers as “philanthropic”.
March 26th, 2008 at 10:17 am
The scary part is, there is a whole new generation of reeducated Kids out there……They’ve been educated by music, TV, games, to accept, not to resist. If you were to ask The Kid, I’d wager he sees nothing wrong with accepting a chip implant.
March 26th, 2008 at 10:18 am
It’s true! Chicks love dicks with implants!
March 26th, 2008 at 10:21 am
And guys love girls with tongue implants
March 26th, 2008 at 10:54 am
i have a feeling things aren’t as simple as “the city” running the world.
zechariah sitchin, michael tsarion, jordan maxwell… take it an interesting step further.
March 26th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
College kid has a complex with “White Men” LOL!! What the hell is wrong with you??
March 26th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
You can only know it for sure, by doing it ALL over again.
Build these twin towers exactly to their original plans
someplace(best NOT in the U.S.A.)
and make them hit by two planes of the same kind in exactly the same way
so and look what happens
-little detail: keep away unwanted individuals
costs money you say?
it can also BRING money instead!
March 26th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Heres a prediction for ya! AmeriKa attacks Iran, Russia gets involved in the mix and sides with Iran against AmeriKa, then Amerika calls for a draft and that plus the plundering economy provokes an internal armed civil war which causes the federal government to flounder back on its heels. Finally AmeriKa gets nuked from the South American communist countries who cross over the otherwise open border with briefcase nukes and a naval nuclear assault on AmeriKa by Russia on the eastern coast destroying our once great nation for good…! The mystery Babylon, that great whore by whom the nations made themselves rich, will burn in one hour… What will AmeriKans do then? We did it to ourselves didn’t we? At least we allowed ourselves to be corraled into this perdicament by allowing the federal government to become infiltrated by the Nazi/Communist globalists and their fiat blood money. God will bless AmeriKa… With a baptism of fire! I only hope some mercy is shown on those of us who accept his will, and those of us who speak out against the iniquity which has become AmeriKan social/civil and foreign policies.
March 27th, 2008 at 12:15 am
Danksta. You are obviously a morons idiots fools villiage idiots son. NO STEEL FRAME BUILDING HAS EVER COLLAPSED FROM FIRE IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. Some steel frame buildings have literally burned for days, leaving only the frame. Oklahoma was half gutted by a bomb, but still occaisonal idiots like yourself like to talk shit like you fucking know something? Dude, you don’t know dick from stick pussy.
And how did the BBC announced it collapsed 20 minutes early genius? God your fucking stupid. Either that or your one of those punk college undergrads moonlighting at the NSA and posting stupid comments in between jacking off in the restroom.
March 27th, 2008 at 12:19 am
And Danksta, the only “huge buldge” on 911, was in your boyfriends pants- as you rushed to your knees like a good little first responder. lol bitch.
March 27th, 2008 at 12:24 am
And Danksta, your probably smarter than all the scientists at http://www.patriotsquestion911.com too aren’t ya huh? Don’t forget to look at the General who commanded all of our NATO forces in Europe- who questions 911. That is if you can get past the 747 pilots and other senior military.
Who’s your buddy??? http://www.bushorchimp.com
March 27th, 2008 at 12:24 am
Danksta
wow its amazing how many people in the world just go off of hearsay and never look into things themselves. if they did, i don’t think that the NWO would have come as far along as it has. keep drinking the kool-aid and you will become just as brain dead as the rest of em.
March 27th, 2008 at 12:31 am
Keep fighting to protect the “matrix” Danksta. God forbid should the truth ever make you feel uncomfortable. Just keep pumping up your credit score and sucking up to the in laws. And be a good little citizen and just do whatever they tell you.
March 27th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
danksta… I wont ridicule you for believing the way you do, i understand the whole idea that our government would do something like this is frightening beyond belief… I knew the 9/11 attacks where an inside job the morning it happened when i saw those buildings collapse, but other people are not so intuitive. Did you know that Prescott Bush (George bush’ grandfather) was a Nazi money launderer and profiteer?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl.....ndworldwar
The Nazi’s used the same tactic to start their world war, the Reichstag fire incident. And AmeriKa did the same thing to start the Vietnam war by faking the gulf of Tonkin attack on its own ships which has now been proven by disclosure of once top secret documents. Did you know that Barak Hussein Obahama is Pres. Bush 11th removed cousin and that Mcain is his 10th removed cousin? Don’t you understand that the people you have for a government are almost all related to Nazi’s? Wake up and smell the dead bodies, this is really happening… Amerika has become the fourth Reich. One of these days people like you are gonna figure it out, but it will be to late then. And remember, when the *expletive deleted* hits the fan, its people like you who will be held responsible for refusing to wake up.
March 27th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Don’t bother “confused”, Danksta is a FED. No one can research this stuff for more than 5 minutes and still not understand that 911 was an inside job. If he is not a FED, then he is the poster boy for educated idiots, and his picture must be in Websters under “denial”.
March 27th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Danksta is just like all the other bullshiters that come here and act like they have an angle. They never address the critical questions, just like the 911 commission report. They only address the questions they can twist and spin.
If the government cannot answer 70% (actual given figure) of the victims families who made the film “911 press for truth” questions who had to pull teeth just to get an investigation, then i’m damn sure Danksta won’t be able to either.
http://www.patriotsquestion911.com also includes many victims family members and popular celebrities.
FUCK YOU DANKSTA. Keep sucking the gas pump cock you ingnorant maggot, while the government lies to you about the real state of technology so the Rothschilds and the oil mafia can keep sheeple addicted to oil like heroin addicts. Me and my friends will drive our fully water powered cars.
http://www.waterpoweredcar.com
March 27th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
And if people think that water doesn’t have power, then what the fuck do you think the hydrogen bomb was made of? H20
2 parts hydrogen, one part oxygen.
This REALITY also thoroughly debunks “global warming” propaganda.
March 27th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Just who the hell do these people think they are? http://youtube.com/watch?v=BaS6bLQixkM This is the most Treasonous piece i’ve seen! These bastards need to hang high! They feel they have the right to destroy this country and the world! They are the only ones that are criminals against the humanity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes you will sit at the right hand of Satan, when you are burning in hell. Hitlery it IS NOT THE WAY IT IS GOING TO BE, SO HELP ME GOD! Hitlery your path is one that is straight to hell.
March 27th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sTr.....re=related Why investigate it was their playground. You have to remember this was stated on 12 Sept 2001.