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September 8, 2007 at 08:52:58

Professors Make Legal Challenges to NIST 9/11 World Trade Centre Report

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7th Sept, 2007 Hot Springs Village - Arkansas, Clemson - South Carolina, Danbury - Connecticut. In separate actions, 2 professors have initiated legal challenges against the report that supposedly explained how and why World Trade Centre towers 1 & 2 were destroyed on Sept 11 2001. Professor Morgan Reynolds, using various points of evidence, challenges the assumption that large jet planes hit the towers. Professor Judy Wood challenges the stated cause (jet impacts and resulting fires) for the destruction of the entire WTC complex. Professor Wood has uncovered various items of evidence which have allowed her to declare that NCSTAR1 is “fraudulent and deceptive”. 

In 2005, a number of reports were issued by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) which were meant to explain how the World Trade Centre towers were completely destroyed.  The challenged report is designated NCSTAR 1 and runs some 298 pages.  Dr. Judy Wood (formerly  Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University) has lodged a Request For Correction, and a subsequent appeal, with NIST, with the help of a Connecticut Attorney Jerry Leaphart. Dr. Morgan Reynolds, Professor (Emeritus) of Economics at Texas A & M University and former Chief Economist in the Dept. of Labor, also with the help of  Jerry Leaphart, has initiated 2 separate actions against NIST.

The first action was initiated in March 2007 by Dr. Wood, in the form of a "Request For Correction" (RFC) which declares that the main NIST WTC report (NCSTAR1) is “fraudulent and deceptive” because it in no way accounts for the profound level of destruction of the WTC towers – as illustrated in a collection of over 65 photographs she has presented. Dr. Wood states that “NIST cannot make a statement that the World Trade Center towers came down in ‘free fall’ on one hand”, and then say “that doing so is a form of collapse.” Wood also states that “Use of the descriptive word ‘collapse’” is incorrect and Wood points out that according to NIST’s own data, their explanation of how the towers were pulverised does not satisfy the laws of Physics. Dr. Wood, concludes from her study, that some type of Directed Energy Weapon was used to destroy most of the WTC buildings. Dr. Wood also points out that Applied Research Associates (ARA) were involved in the production of some aspects of the NCSTAR reports and that they are a manufacturer of Directed Energy Weapons and/or components of same. This therefore would be one example of where there was a “conflict of interest” in producing a truthful report.

Even though NIST was supposed to have responded to each RFC within 60 days, an “extension of review” notification was posted on 29th June 2007 for both Dr. Wood’s and Dr. Reynolds’ RFC’s.

Then, in a letter dated 27 July 2007, Catherine Fletcher of NIST rejected Dr. Wood’s original RFC, stating “NIST has examined the photographs you provided in conjunction with all the other evidence and has found that the evidence does not support a theory involving directed energy weapons.” Fletcher also stated, “…ARA was determined not to have an organizational conflict of interest”. Finally Fletcher stated, “In conclusion, NIST is denying your request for correction because the NIST analysis of the initiation of the collapse of the WTC towers was thorough and based on all of the available evidence, and NIST continues to believe that the report is not fraudulent, deceptive or misleading.”

The Data Quality Act, however, includes a “right of appeal” against the decision and Dr. Wood has worked to further document a significant conflict of interest between ARA and some of the analyses NIST used in their reports. In the appeal, dated August 22nd 2007, Dr. Wood makes 6 key assertions and states that “NIST should have known that Applied Research Associates (ARA) is a ‘significant manufacturer of directed energy weapons and/or components thereof’” Additionally, Dr. Wood states “NIST should have detected evidence of the use of such weaponry even in the context of NIST’s intentional and, I assert, improper limitation of its investigation into ‘the sequence of events leading up to the ‘collapse’ of the World Trade Center (WTC) towers.’” A response to this appeal is now pending.

Dr. Reynolds' RFC outlines how NCSTAR1 failed to properly explain the observed damage caused by the supposed plane impacts. He challenges the true nature of the impacts based on a number of points of evidence. Reynolds states that NIST produced plane animations which showed “No significant deceleration as each jetliner entered a tower” and he points out that data used in the associated analysis is inconsistent.

Overall, considering the evidence discussed in NCSTAR1, Reynolds states: “These purported phenomena, [as mentioned above and as] described by NIST and its contractors, are not independently verifiable and do not have a scientifically valid basis for making the assumption that the simulated conditions could actually have occurred. Equally significant, the preparation of simulations that depict conditions that violate scientific principles serves only to mislead and to set the conditions for false conclusions to be enunciated.”

NIST has still not issued a response to Dr. Reynolds’ RFC - some 5 months later (only the “extension of review” notification).

In an action which is directly related to the RFC, Dr. Reynolds, also under the guidance of Jerry Leaphart, has now initiated a Law Suit against NIST. Dr. Reynolds’ “Qui Tam” complaint, filed on 11th  July 2007 in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, lists 81 points in 7 “causes of action”. The 34-page document is framed as Dr.. Morgan O. Reynolds, on behalf of the United States of America vs Science Applications International Corp., Applied Research Associates, Inc., Boeing, Silverstein Properties, American Airlines, United Airlines and others. Its stated aim is to “recover treble damages and civil penalties under the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-33 and to recover all available damages and other monetary relief under the common law or equitable theories of unjust enrichment, payment under mistake of fact, recoupment of overpayments and common law fraud.”

The action charges that “defendants knowingly concealed, or failed to disclose, or caused others to fail to disclose material information” and that the reports produced “intentionally did not satisfy, the mandate that NIST had, which was that of determining what caused the destruction of WTC1,2.”

It also charges that NIST’s “documentation serves solely to mislead, obfuscate and provide a vehicle for the intended fraud; namely, that of steering NIST away from a consideration of what caused the destruction of WTC1,2; which, as elsewhere elaborated upon, was the use on 9/11/01 of exotic weaponry known as directed energy weapons.”

Further developments in this case are now awaited.

For more information, contact the named individuals using the details below.

Jerry Leaphart, Jerry V. Leaphart & Assoc., P.C. 8 West Street, Suite 203 Danbury, CT 06810 phone - (203) 825-6265 ,  fax – (203) 825-6256, e-mail: jsleaphart@cs.com

Dr. Judy Wood:  lisajudy@nctv.com, www.drjudywood.com

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DOB -- September 20, 1940. Became active in civil rights and peace movements in 1962. Active in socialist and antiwar movements -- 1963-69. Active in Gay Liberation from 1969 to present.
rhalfhillDOB -- September 20, 1940. Became active in civil rights and peace movements in 1962. Active in socialist and antiwar movements -- 1963-69. Active in Gay Liberation from 1969 to present.

UNFORTUNATE THAT LAWSUITS SUPPORT DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS

   It is indeed unfortunate that the filers of the two lawsuits challenging the NIST report on the collapse of the World Trade Center are supporters of the theory that directed energy weapons brought down the Twin Towers.  Only a nuclear reactor could produce enough energy to bring about the collapse of the towers.  Where is the nuclear reactor?  No nuclear reactors, which are large, bulky and hard to hide, have turned up in the vicinity of the World Trade Center.  The directed energy could not have been beamed down from an orbiting satelite since any satelite big enough to contain a nuclear reactor could be easily seen by earthbound observers.

   How could a directed energy beam cut the steel girders of the World Trade Center at the precise angle cut by thermate explosives in controlled building demolitions.  This is only one of the many indications that the Twin Towers were brought down by carefully preplanted and timed explosions in a controlled building demolition.  Others are that the towers fell at nearly free fall speed and the overwhelming majority of the towers mass fell on to the surface area the buildings stood on, i.e. on to their footprints.

   These lawsuits because they are active court cases are most likely to generate publicity and be regarded as representative of the views of the 9/11 Truth movement.  An overwhelming amount of evidence supports the contention that the Twin Towers were brought down by controlled demolition.  But, by supporting the theory that the Twin Towers were brought down by directed energy weapons, the lawsuits will associate the 9/11 Truth movement with crack pot theories that lack any supporting evidence and associate us with comic strip depictions of ray guns and Buck Rogers.

   If that were not enough to discredit the 9/11 Truth movement to the public, one of the lawsuits seems to be questioning that planes struck the two towers by arguing that the videos of the impact are physically impossible and therefore have to be fabricated.  Yet many people in New York actually saw the planes hit the Twin Towers.

   Lawsuits based on the well supported controlled demolition theory of the towers demise would have had a far better chance of being credible.  Lawsuits claiming that the towers were destroyed by directed energy weapons will make us seem like nuts and crackpots.

Robert Halfhill     rhalfhill@juno.com

by rhalfhill (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 270 comments) on Saturday, September 8, 2007 at 1:25:33 PM
 


I am an individual who is interested in exposing the true events of the 9/11 attacks.
CB BrooklynI am an individual who is interested in exposing the true events of the 9/11 attacks.

Only DEWs support the data

Try reading the papers on Dr Wood's site before making such wild assumptions. Also see the information in my recent comments on OpEdNews.

by CB Brooklyn (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 403 comments) on Saturday, September 8, 2007 at 9:49:25 PM
 


I hold bachelor of arts degrees in Philosophy and Political Science, as well as a minor in psychology.
MattI hold bachelor of arts degrees in Philosophy and Political Science, as well as a minor in psychology.

Delusions, Fantaticism, and Lies

A denial of reality and historical revisionism of the most frightening and reprehensible kind.

by Matt (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 5 comments) on Saturday, September 8, 2007 at 4:57:10 PM
 


I am a chemist and able to contribute to the debate about thermite.
gravity32I am a chemist and able to contribute to the debate about thermite.

missed the real one

Andrew, it is most regrettable that you missed reporting the Request for Correction which has been sent to NIST by the Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice and others. Unlike the two you refer to this one is based on sound science. It can be found on their home page here:

http://stj911.com/


There is good reason to suspect that the authors of the two you refer to have been coerced in some way to file a rubbish request in order to discredit the truth movement. They used to produce good work but suddenly ceased to do so some time ago.

 

by gravity32 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 151 comments) on Saturday, September 8, 2007 at 8:00:56 PM
 


Tutor, Assessor, Software Developer UK 9/11 Campaigner
Andrew JohnsonTutor, Assessor, Software Developer UK 9/11 Campaigner

Not missed

Oops James Gourley's RFC is mentioned at the end of the Press release/story. Presumably you didn't bother to read that far.

I enjoyed the eulegy of Steve Jones in that RFC.

by Andrew Johnson (2 articles, 1 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 66 comments) on Sunday, September 9, 2007 at 9:58:55 AM
 


I am an individual who is interested in exposing the true events of the 9/11 attacks.
CB BrooklynI am an individual who is interested in exposing the true events of the 9/11 attacks.

Andrew, thank you for posting this excellent work!

And don't let the idiotic comments bother you. They obviously don't know how to look at information.

by CB Brooklyn (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 403 comments) on Saturday, September 8, 2007 at 9:53:49 PM
 


I am a chemist and able to contribute to the debate about thermite.
gravity32I am a chemist and able to contribute to the debate about thermite.

proof of explosives, not beams

If anyone has any doubt about what brought down the towers read this:

http://journalof911studies.com/volume/2007/LeggeConspiracy&Myth7.pdf

It discusses how myths are created.

by gravity32 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 151 comments) on Saturday, September 8, 2007 at 11:33:42 PM
 


I am an individual who is interested in exposing the true events of the 9/11 attacks.
CB BrooklynI am an individual who is interested in exposing the true events of the 9/11 attacks.

you're looking at it simplemindedly

I have already explained numerous times that the explosives evidence is a planted decoy that the perps will blame Al Qaeda for, as Bush did in 2006.

Do you have memory lapses or something? What's wrong with you?

You (and others in this thread) are practitioners of pathological science. You obviously only look at the evidence that will support your predetermined conclusion. Get a grip on what you're doing.

by CB Brooklyn (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 403 comments) on Sunday, September 9, 2007 at 12:12:31 AM
 


Tutor, Assessor, Software Developer UK 9/11 Campaigner
Andrew JohnsonTutor, Assessor, Software Developer UK 9/11 Campaigner

Dr Legge

Hmmm - I had some interesting correspondence with Dr Legge back in April. I was surprised he even bothered to contact a lowly Part-Time OU Tutor like me. He was acutally somewhat complimentary about my Website and the article I had written, which I thanked him for (although he disagreed with some of it).

 Anyway, 9/11 Truthers are working in myths, aren't they? According to the Mainstream? So maybe we have a "mainstream" 9/11 truth movement now?

by Andrew Johnson (2 articles, 1 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 66 comments) on Sunday, September 9, 2007 at 11:14:25 AM
 


I am a chemist and able to contribute to the debate about thermite.
gravity32I am a chemist and able to contribute to the debate about thermite.

the real request for correction

The link above is not working. Trying again:

http://stj911.com/

Look at the home page here to find the request referred to above.

 

by gravity32 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 151 comments) on Saturday, September 8, 2007 at 11:39:29 PM
 


I am an individual who is interested in exposing the true events of the 9/11 attacks.
CB BrooklynI am an individual who is interested in exposing the true events of the 9/11 attacks.

That RFC is Nothing But a Joke!!!

If "Truth and Justice" is soooooo confident in their thermite and molten metal, then why isn't it mentioned in the RFC?

Answer: Because NIST would have dismissed the RFC as frivolous!

That RFC is nothing but a joke! A joke believed by jokers.

It's not even dated!

It's A JOKE!

by CB Brooklyn (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 403 comments) on Sunday, September 9, 2007 at 12:22:35 AM
 


Harpist, unemployed blue collar worker, and Bush basher living deep in the heart of Texas.
PappyHarpist, unemployed blue collar worker, and Bush basher living deep in the heart of Texas.

Does anyone really believe...

...that some death ray from outer space, or even inner space did this? If so, I have some ocean front property in Ohio for sale.

I believe that there's a lot more to the 9/11 attack than we are being told. I watched events unfold on TV, from about five minutes after the first plane hit until tower seven fell. Those buildings fell way too perfectly to have been brought down by the fire from the jet fuel. Building seven wasn't even hit, and fell neatly into a pile. Either the buildings were constructed with shit and crepe paper, or there's something more here than meets the eye.

But to say it was done by some future-matic push-button death ray is to drive yet another nail into the coffin of the truth. It's like trying to sort out the truth of extraterrestrial life and the fiction of alien abduction. One I believe, as it makes no sense that in all the vastness of space, we are the only place that supports life. The other is, IMHO, a batch of total grade "A" bullshit!

I'm sorry, but I'll believe that little gray men with big black eyes are here to disembowel cattle, and perform sexual experiments on us when I either am taken up and ravaged, or witness someone taken up into a space ship. Until that time, it's too many people smoking too much weed looking for their fifteen minutes of fame.

Herein lies the real problem with conspiracy theorists and other crackpots. They thirst for notoriety and fame, and are willing to do anything to get it. Their empty-headed drivel gets sold as truth, and in that process, those who believe that we're not getting the full story look like the same kind of lunatics. I'm not a lunatic. I'm not some far out, sees reds under every bed, paranoid, delusional conspiracy nut. I'm just a guy who thinks we aren't getting the truth about what really happened six years ago. There is a difference!

It's too bad that stupid always gets the floor.

Blessed be!
Pappy

by Pappy (61 articles, 0 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 863 comments) on Sunday, September 9, 2007 at 2:40:42 AM
 


A 'senior' world citizen concerned about how badly our shared domicile is being ravaged by imperialists, dominionists, neo-cons and evangelists.
syed mahdiA 'senior' world citizen concerned about how badly our shared domicile is being ravaged by imperialists, dominionists, neo-cons and evangelists.

Andrew Johnson's Report on Legal Challenge to NIST etc

The questions to ask are not if 2 aircraft hit the WTC towers. They did! The more pertinent questions to ask are:

1. Where is the debris of the Pentagon Boeing and the Pennsylvania Boeing?

2. Why "sufficient" facilities were "made available" to the 2 Boeings which hit the twin towers?

Add to the above the short video clip showing over joyous skull capped photographers filming the 2 crashes, a clip which slipped into Media for a few minutes then disappeared forever. Instead another old footage showing Palestinians rejoicing in Gaza or someplace in Occupied Palestine which then turned out was filmed years before and supplied to US Media as a master develish replacement.

Add to all the above the pre-9/11Hollywood Film which was based on a supposed Pentagon Conspiracy to bring down the same Twin Towers for the same purposes and reasons, the Pentagon-Cheney-Dubya-Zionists-Imperialists-Neo-cons have been implementing since 9/11.

Then, work backwards to explain why the twin towers could not have collapsed in the manner they did. The answers to the whole puzzle would unravel.

What about the 19 Arabs? Well, the conspirators needed 19 Arabs at least to point the compass to another convenient way. We all know about how aircraft flights can be taken over by advanced Pentagon- tested GROUND Control Apparatus which disable Aircraft based flight control. Tested? Yes, tested, on the Egypt Air Flight which blew up shortly after taking off from New York without any on-board explosions or any outside missile hits. 

What about Ben Laden's claims? Well, he is a United States creation any way! Every time he releases his tapes, they always end up serving Dubya and his cohorts. Ask yourself why Ben Laden is still able to release his tapes. He is being kept alive and safe and for all I care, he might be at Crawford. Were not all 9/11 available Ben Laden's flown out of the US on 9/11 and 10/11 when no other flights were allowed to even taxi on US runways, let aside take off.

by syed mahdi (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 123 comments) on Sunday, September 9, 2007 at 3:00:40 AM
 


Tutor, Assessor, Software Developer UK 9/11 Campaigner
Andrew JohnsonTutor, Assessor, Software Developer UK 9/11 Campaigner

Keep to the science as much as possible...

If you read the RFC's and Law Suit, they discuss mainly science issues, not people rejoicing at plane impacts.

 There seems to be similar evidence of planting pieces of debris at the WTC as at Shanksville, as well as all the other evidence that something other than large jets hit the towers.

 

by Andrew Johnson (2 articles, 1 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 66 comments) on Sunday, September 9, 2007 at 4:04:06 PM
 

 

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