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Originally posted by whatsecret
Unless I never knew "that" existed. Are you saying every engineer knew exactly what was provided to NIST and what was given to every other engineer for analysis? Sounds pretty ridiculous, considering that so many different engineers were involved in this project.
It's called conflict of interest. But I don't expect you to admit it. (I read your posts)
Maybe if you were the President of US, and you first got your old, good friend the a job as the director of the lottery commission. And maybe you had personal connections to the oil industry which pays a lot more than the lottery director makes. And after you won the lottery, your friend gets a job at the oil company from your home state. You think people would have questions?edit on 27-5-2013 by whatsecret because: (no reason given)edit on 27-5-2013 by whatsecret because: (no reason given)
I can think of one good reason. But I was hoping you would give me another one.
I'm wondering who is saying that a conspiracy belief is proof of anything?
What is "that" though? I don't know what you believe so it could be anything from blasting caps to nuclear weapons. The engineers working on the WTC knew what they were investigating, a terrorist attack causing the destruction of a whole block of buildings. What exactly is it you imagine they didn't know existed?
Imagine if you were an engineer working on this project and you were told "you don't need that".
Admit what? It's only a conflict of interest if there's some sort of criminal investigation going on that involves the other party. In what way has Bush ever been indicted on 911? The idea that the entire government and all their related agencies cannot investigate a terrorist attack on the USA due to having some relationship to the president? That's absurd.
You're forgetting that the pick was filmed by hundreds, reproduced in laboratories and nobody involved has spoken out or presented evidence of it being faked.
I'm sure people would have questions, but I'm sure that questions alone mean nothing.
I'm all for freedom of information. I wish NIST had stronger powers in this regard, seizing and opening information to the public completely. This isn't the case though, and I can't blame them for being tied up in bureaucracy.
There was no direct argument, just explaining why I wrote what I did
Originally posted by exponent
Originally posted by amazing
Wait...you just said conspiracy theorists think that man has not been to the moon. What does that have to do with 911?
It's an example of a completely accepted truth being denied by conspiracy theorists. My point being that conspiracy belief is no proof of anything.
And are you saying that,if I have a question about a specific topic pertaining to 911 that I should be labeled a conspiracy theorist and that I must think we have not been to the moon? You implied that. Talk about an ignorant and offensive statement. Wow!edit on 27-5-2013 by amazing because: (no reason given)
Not at all. Questions are admirable, ignoring answers is the problem here.
Originally posted by whatsecret
reply to post by exponent
Are you serious? You're the one that said:
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So what is "that"?
No big deal since Bush was never indicted. Unfortunately that only applies to the government. I have no desire to argue about this obvious credibility issue.
To compare the lottery and 9/11 conflict of interest... Sure the pick was filmed and seen by thousands, but who checked the balls before the draw?
If it was like NIST investigation, then the director could have determined that not all balls are directly related to what is investigated.
Questions require answers, and answer require proof.
You can't blame them? That's very nice of you, but as an American, I can and do blame them.
There was no direct argument, just explaining why I wrote what I did
Now that's absurd.
Originally posted by amazing
No, you're trying to link everything together...everyone with questions about events as a nut job. It's very ignorant.
Originally posted by SomeoneWatching
reply to post by exponent
It was a total collapse of the building. Yet they only analyzed evidence from the top portion (which was hit by the airplanes).
Ok an example that would raise a fuss: The yield strength of perimeter columns.
Imagine what would happen if the investigators were told by NISTs director "No no, you can't have that, continue your work without it". There'd be an uproar.
What 'obvious' credibility issue. Are you saying that nobody in the US government can ever speak credibly on a terrorist attack because someone might suspect that they did it? People also suspect that aliens did it, that homosexuals did it, that muslims did it. Are you going to disqualify these groups too because some people are irrational?
The same people who always did.
Except we have no evidence of that, no evidence of anything untoward, just so much suspicion I'm surprised you haven't interrogated your parents.
So why ignore them
How? How can you blame NIST for the bureaucracy of leadership and the FOIA? It seems to me you're not remotely interested in finding out the truth, just in proving your beliefs.
Well that makes literally no sense whatsoever so congratulations on your mindless posting.
Originally posted by whatsecret
reply to post by exponent
How would the yield strength of columns reveal evidence of explosives?
Is it necessary to have explosives on every single column for a building implosion? I'm not an expert, but you seem to know a lot about it.
How would the investigators know which columns was declared irrelevant? It seem logical to me that at least a few columns on each floor did not have a bomb attached to it. It would be pretty easy for NIST director to only choose these columns if he wanted to cover up explosives.
We are talking about a building collapse investigation. NIST had nothing to do with the investigation of who did it. If somebody wanted to cover up explosives having a old friend at the top would be very useful. But if you don't get it, I don't care.
Only this time the winner has a good friend in charge of the inspection. Plus this friend was appointed to be in charge by the winner shortly before the win, and after the win the same friend got a high paying job at the oil company based in the winners home state. And it so happens to be that the winner was already making a lot of money from the oil industry for many years.
That's right there's so much suspicion and It would be nice if it was investigated.
My parents have nothing to do with it, and you can't win an argument with these kinds of comments. So do yourself a favor and cut it out.
I should ask you that question. Why are you ignoring proof of conflict of interest?
Funny that you don't see the irony in this statement. I'm saying I blame the NIST leadership for not disclosing facts to the public, and somehow that made you thing I'm not interested in finding out the truth. Interesting...
What makes no sense whatsoever is your remark about the moon landing in a discussion of a building collapse.
It all depends on how the explosives were placed. If the yield strength were significantly higher than stated then it would obviously have a bearing on the collapse. You asked me for a relevant example and that is one, it's information which determines how the structure performs in fire.
It's certainly not required for explosives to be on every column, but the WTC was a unique design with a large number of closely spaced perimeter columns, so any demolition theory has to take that into account, they were built in 3x3 storey groups and offset so they formed a very strong moment frame.
In this case the debris tagging was done far before NIST got involved, I believe it was FEMA or some TLA that did it initially but I can't remember offhand.
The whole site was pretty well combed and there's never been any mention of anything particularly suspicious being found (in the way of blasting caps, detcord, obvious shaped charge damage etc).
Oh no I understand what you're saying, but what I am saying is that you cannot assume this bias as you will disqualify literally everyone that could possibly investigate this.
My point is that you can suspect anyone and everyone and it does nothing to help you whatsoever.
There's no evidence of any impropriety by any high level NIST employee and no engineer or employee or contractor involved in production of the paper has complained about corruption as far as I know. Disregarding this and suspecting anyway is just bias.
As I said, you need to actually indict someone to have a conflict of interest in this manner. Nobody has indicted anyone in the Bush administration for being complicit in 911. Until you do that, there's not even a question of conflict of interest.
It seems to me that you've decided your position before receiving the data, despite the fact that the refusal seems to be bureaucratic and nothing to do with engineers work being covered up. In this case it would have to be the people writing the report as well. If you have to keep expanding the list of complicit people without ever having evidence of it, then you probably have a faulty theory.
Originally posted by whatsecret
This example is nowhere near relevant to what we're talking about. Give me an example of how would any scientist, architect or engineer know what PHYSICAL evidence recovered at the scene of WTC7 collapse was determined by NIST Director to be unrelated to the investigation of WTC 7 collapse.
You are changing the topic... We are talking about the final NIST report on the collapse of WTC 7. Are you suggesting that the towers and WTC 7 had the same design?
Exactly! Now explain to me how would NIST scientists, architects and engineers know what was tagged by FEMA or some TLA way before NIST was even involved?
And how would FEMA or some TLA know what was determined by the director to be unrelated to the NIST investigation?
If there were nothing particularly suspicious, nothing would be tagged. Think before you post.
If things like furniture, telephones, computers didn't survive the collapse why would things that were attached to the bombs themselves like blasting caps and detcords survive? that makes no sense.
As for the items with obvious shaped charge damage, that would have been given to NIST. And as you know only ONE man was authorized to determine what physical items were related to the investigation. Since people that were tagging at the site have no way of knowing what was actually given to the scientist and scientists have no way of knowing what was tagged and given to NIST, what can they possibly complain about?
You are wrong... It's not bias, it's common sense. And it only disqualifies those who have something to loose or gain based on the results. In this case Bush Administration had a lot to loose if it turned out building 7 was rigged with explosives. Because it would be even more unbelievable that terrorists didn't have help on the inside.
That's ridiculous... who benefited more than the military industrial complex? Who had the means to pull it off more then the military industrial complex? Who gained unprecedented control over the American people and virtually the whole world more then the Government? Certainly not aliens or the homosexuals, like you stated in the previous post.
There's this NIST Whistleblower. It's unverifiable of course ( I think), but we know for a fact that Bush administration stone walled the creation of any investigation, then manipulated the 9/11 Commission, vital information is classified to this very day. Is it really that hard for you to believe that Bush would manipulate NIST through his friend and then bribe him with a new job at TXU? These people are pathological liars, why would anybody believe anything they say is beyond me.
HA that's funny.. Don't you need evidence to indict someone? And to get evidence don't you need to investigate first?
What are you even talking about? Engineers are kept in the dark just like everybody else. ONE MAN DETERMINED WHAT WAS RELATED TO THE INVESTIGATION.
I'm done. nice talking to you.
Again the same values apply. You keep wanting to act as if there's some secret hidden evidence but without actually having any knowledge of any hidden evidence.
Disclaimer No. 3 Pursuant to section 7 of the National Construction Safety Team Act, the NIST Director has determined that certain evidence received by NIST in the course of this Investigation is “voluntarily provided safety-related information” that is “not directly related to the building failure being investigated” and that “disclosure of that information would inhibit the voluntary provision of that type of information” (15 USC 7306c). In addition, a substantial portion of the evidence collected by NIST in the course of the Investigation has been provided to NIST under nondisclosure agreements.
You can't just guess and guess and guess and then insist you are correct.
No, I'm detailing how you can't just easily cover up facts in an investigation like this.
It's certainly not required for explosives to be on every column, but the WTC was a unique design with a large number of closely spaced perimeter columns, so any demolition theory has to take that into account, they were built in 3x3 storey groups and offset so they formed a very strong moment frame.
I see so you have literally no idea at all of anything suspicious, but because you suspect Bush, you therefore suspect the entire Government. This is paranoia, not reasonable investigation.
You don't even know who did the tagging or why, yet you somehow can cast suspicion. No, this is now nonsense and illustrating your bias.
More useless fantasy. You have no evidence of any of this, you've just constructed a paranoid scenario in your mind and you are now insisting it was true.
Many of the same people worked both. The idea that there's a NIST Director just throwing away valuable evidence because he's friends with Bush is nonsense.
It's bias.
If my wife gets shot to death I benefit most. Does that mean that no matter what the evidence says, you suspect me above all else?
Aaand you explicitly list your biases. You have no facts, just hatred of Bush. Grow up.
You do, you haven't investigated or got any evidence.
Total evidence for this: 0. Total factual knowledge of any form backing this up: 0 It's purely bias, you think Bush is responsible for 911 so you condemn everyone and anyone involved with him. The entire government can't investigate a terrorist attack because in your eyes Bush is responsible for them. How absurd.
Disclaimer No. 3 Pursuant to section 7 of the National Construction Safety Team Act, the NIST Director has determined that certain evidence received by NIST in the course of this Investigation is “voluntarily provided safety-related information” that is “not directly related to the building failure being investigated”
Originally posted by whatsecret
reply to post by exponent
So I suppose you know what evidence was given to NIST under nondisclosure agreement, and what was unrelated according to NIST Director?
And what am I supposed to do if they are not disclosing the evidence? Am I supposed to ignore the FACT that a substantial portion of evidence remains undisclosed? Or should I be like you and guess that there's nothing important in the substantial portion of the undisclosed evidence?
You are not making any sense. Let me read it again...
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Hmm... Still don't make any sense..
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Please refer to the Disclaimer No. 3. Tell me what exactly is undisclosed.
You said it yourself... FEMA or some TLA was tagging things that would be useful for the investigation.
Back this up with facts. A list of names of people who worked both. And list of evidence that NIST director did not disclose.
Really? Why then the Administration didn't want to investigate for so long?
If you or your good friend would be authorized to determine what was related or unrelated to the investigation, then yes I would suspect you above all else. Ever heard stories of people hiring hitman to kill their spouse? Sometimes the hitman is arrested and gives up who hired him for the job. Maybe that's why the Saudis are still not being investigated?
I don't hate Bush, i just don't trust him and the rest of the known liars.
I don't wanna grow up, I'm a toys-r-us kid.
Were there more than one NIST director?
This is a ridiculous assumption to make as this is most likely just office layouts, products used, competitive aircraft procedures etc etc.