9/11 Qui Tam Jurisdictional Challenges Filed - 2/29/08

The basis of both the Wood and the Reynolds cases is the release of the so-called "Final Report on the Collapses of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center (NCSTAR 1)" by NIST in September of 2005. In March of 2007, Reynolds and Wood both challenged NCSTAR 1 as fraudulent in separately filed "Requests for Correction," which were processed by NIST and largely rejected. The 298-page NIST report is backed by 10,000 pages of technical data prepared with the assistance of ARA and SAIC and the other defendants in the Wood and Reynolds cases.

NCSTAR 1 is fraudulent because of the evidence that it ignored, as per the challenges submitted by Reynolds and Wood, its mandate to determine the cause of the destruction of the Twin Towers.

The pending lawsuits are brought under the False Claims Act and are designated as "Qui Tam" cases. In such cases, the persons bringing them cannot be found to have relied on publicly disclosed information as the basis of their claims of fraud unless they are the 'original sources' of that information. If they relied on publicly disclosed information of which they are not the original source, then, in that event, the court lacks jurisdiction.

The "original source" issue gives rise to recurring and complex legal questions that make it difficult to predict who is and who is not an original source and whether or not the doctrine applies in a given case. The only way to find out whether a case can pass muster under the False Claims Act is to put it before the court to decide.

The briefs filed in the Wood and the Reynolds cases contain discussion, by both sides, of the impact of a recent Supreme Court case where the meaning of "original source" was clarified. The Supreme Court case mentioned in the court filings is Rockwell vs. USA, decided in March of 2007.

Now it is up to the judge to rule on the jurisdictional challenges. Dr. Wood's and Dr. Reynolds' filings assert that they either did not rely on 'publicly disclosed' information; or, if they did, then they are the original source of that information.

The lawsuits allege that ARA and SAIC and other defendants are manufacturers of directed energy weapons and are known participants in military psychological operations (psyops). The allegations that the destruction in New York was caused by directed energy weapons and the allegations that 9/11 relied on false video images -- a form of psychological warfare -- results in Wood and Reynolds claiming that it is inappropriate for NIST to have relied on military-industrial-complex companies that have as their primary function the very things that caused 9/11.

The cases do not make any claims about 'who' perpetrated 9/11. Wood does not challenge every aspect of the official version of 9/11, but according to her filed papers and the brief submitted in the Wood case, the Twin Towers were destroyed by directed energy, not "19 Arabs with box cutters."

The report (NCSTAR 1) is rarely cited and has had almost no public impact, according to Wood and Reynolds. Media sources all but ignored it when it was released in late 2005, despite its cost and seeming thoroughness. One of the contentions set forth in briefs filed on February 29th is that excessive detail, resulting in obfuscation, is a part of the design or scheme of fraud.

In addition, what was not known until Dr. Wood got NIST to admit it (aside from a footnote), is that NCSTAR 1 includes no analysis about the actual collapses of the Twin Towers. The reason for that is that NIST admitted in writing to Dr. Wood that it "did not investigate the actual collapses." NIST's mandate was to investigate the "collapses" of the Twin Towers and it admitted it did not.

The court filings by Dr. Wood maintain that that is fraud.

Dr. Reynolds' case refers to witnesses who did not see or hear any aircraft, let alone wide-body 767 jetliners, hit the Twin Towers, despite being well positioned to have seen and heard jetliners, had any actually been involved. By way of example, one witness is the then Assistant Fire Commissioner Stephen Gregory who, despite being at the Command Post at Vesey and West Avenue, did not see any jetliner and did not hear sounds that were consistent with one, according to his testimony given to the World Trade Center Task Force on October 3, 2001, as related in Dr. Reynolds' court submittals.

The NY Times has made the transcripts of all 503 Task Force Witness Statements available online. Those statements are a source of information confirming that the witnesses were aware of the unusual energy dynamics of the event, frequently using words like "wave" and "force" to describe the event. According to Dr. Wood's affidavit, one such witness, Firefighter Goldfarb, referenced the fact that the destruction taking place in front of him, with the building literally disintegrating, did not make much sound. http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/met

Wood contends there are multiple witness statements consistent with observation of the effects of directed energy weaponry.

Dr. Reynolds has analyzed the available evidence and the claim "thousands of people saw the planes" simply cannot be verified; and, on the contrary, among those who were verifiably present and in a position to see and hear a plane, few make any such report, according to Reynolds.

Dr. Wood also sought confirmation of her findings with the U.S. Directed Energy Directorate (DED), located at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, NM. According to her court papers, the DED neither confirmed nor denied her claim. ARA's headquarters are also in Albuquerque, according to Dr. Wood's filings.

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