National Institute of Standards and Techno gives up truss theory!

The National Institue of Standards and Technology, which has taken over the government funded study of the WTC disaster, has now given up on the whole Truss Collapse theory you heard advertised by FEMA, NOVA and The New York Times. Another 9/11 myth backed by lots of officials plus the U.S. Corporate Media has bit the dust. On this page http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/wtc05-07-03.htm you can find the crucial admission "Nothing in the interim report -- based on a factual review of documents obtained by the NIST -- should be taken to imply that the floor trusses played a critical role in the collapse of the WTC towers." NIST is also studying the similar collapse of WTC 7, which wasn't even hit by a plane. If you read a few paragraphs into their statement you will notice that some powerful people and institutions are still withholding very basic information that the NIST needs -- even the NIST runs up against the gigantic COVER-UP.

I forwarded a link to this study to PlaguePuppy a little while ago. The NIST is being very DIPLOMATIC, to put it mildly. At this point, they are careful to not come out and state anything the Bush Administration would dislike enough to pull the plug on their funding. But they are quietly abandoning a lot of the official assumptions and once they run through their funding, I think they'll be bold enough to let out some things the Bush Administration didn't want to come out. But a lot of it will be stuff open-minded people could glean from the less limited "crank" sites long before--if you aren't getting Federal funding to begin with, you don't have to wait for it to run out before you can tell the truth! And it will be a bit late to start a criminal investigation of who put the bombs in the WTC. From the highest levels of the U.S. Government has come a cover-up of the greatest mass-murder in U.S. history, and the corporate monopolized media completely failed it's critical role in a Democracy. :o

It's time for us citizens to take this matter into our own hands...and our own websites, and our own protests.;) Check out http://www.911thousandmanmarch.org/pages/1/index.htm

Everyone who keeps clinging to the old 9/11 myth so mindlessly promoted by U.S. corporate media and biased officials, should just give it all up and start searching for the truth in an open-minded way. Prejudiced statements against "cranks" and "conspiracy theorists" only prove one thing: that you don't dare to think for yourself, and don't like to see other people with more intellectual bravery doing it either! Just try being a real open-minded independent Citizen for a change, you might like it! :)

You quoted:

Nothing in the interim report -- based on a factual review of documents obtained by the NIST -- should be taken to imply that the floor trusses played a critical role in the collapse of the WTC towers.

Doesn't quite rule the truss theory out, does it? Why is that?

A number of hypotheses have been publicly considered for the sequence of events that led to the collapses of WTC Buildings 1, 2 and 7. Based on an initial assessment of the expert studies conducted as part of recent litigation and other relevant data, NIST still considers it premature to exclude any of these theories.

Any of these theories, which includes the truss theory. So much for your misleading title to this thread.

And did you see the magic word? Litigation. NIST doesn't want its report used for ligitation purposes, just yet. They want to find out the truth.

Trusses could yet prove to be the factor that did the WTC towers in. NIST is also focusing on the fireproofing. They've yet to mention anything about demolition charges, that I can see. Why don't you write to them and let them know about this option. I'm sure that they'd be happy to hear it.

I wrote a while back, and the response I got from the NIST is that explosives are to "sensitive" to comment on now. More evidence of cover-up and limits on official government funded investigations. They can't get away with bringing the explosions into the discusion now without risking their funding...at best, they can try to avoid some of the non-sense that came from trying to explain what happened without taking those explosions into account. They let us know that they can't get official access to the transcripts of first-responder tesimony where we know the evidence of explosions would be, because some of those first-responders discretely posted it on the web. That should let you know where a limit is being imposed.

The NIST is being so diplomatic, that it's hard to get any definate message from 'em. Any interpretation is bound to seem debateable. I think if you read the whole report of the research they've done so far, you will realize that the general ultra-diplomatic stuff about "no hypothesis eliminated" doesn't mean that they think think that the truss theory is much of a live option any more. I think if you have some feeling for the pressures and limits they expressing themselves under, you will realize that they've given as clear a signal as they could indicating that their reasearch really hasn't supported the truss theory that is so convenient to those now in power.

In spite of all that, I think they are trying to do a better job than FEMA, whose investigation a professional fireman's magazine called a "half-baked farce". I forewarded the study to PlaguePuppy because it might be worthwhile to cross-reference some of their information with what's going on in the ever-increasing number of independent studies that are breaking free of the limits imposed on U.S. Government funded investigations. There is real progress being made in the un-official voluntary research of concerned intelligent citizens around the world, people with all different kinds of areas of expertise needed to figure out what really happened. It's high time we all gave up on being narrow-minded, prejudiced, and mind-controlled, and checked out the full variety of sites where the needed progress is happening.