PRESS
RELEASE: World Trade Center Building 7’s
Controlled Demolition: 9/11 Consensus Panel Releases New Evidence from Witness
Testimonies and Architectural Drawings
June
1, 2014 –The 24-member 9/11 Consensus Panel – which includes physicists,
chemists, engineers, commercial pilots, attorneys and lawyers – today announced
three new studies confirming the controlled demolition of World Trade Center 7.
The
studies scientifically refutes the U.S. National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) claim that, for the first time in history, fire caused the sudden
and complete collapse of a large, fire-protected, steel-framed building on 9/11.
(Note
that whereas the Consensus Panel uses a scientific methodology to
peer-review its work, the NIST
report was not peer-reviewed.)
The
first Panel study deals
with the NIST computer simulations, which purported to show that fire-induced
thermal expansion caused a girder to be pushed off its seat at Column 79, thereby
initiating a global collapse of the entire 47-storey building at 5:21 in the
afternoon.
However,
a recent FOIA request has produced WTC 7 architectural drawings showing that
the NIST simulations omitted basic structural supports that would have made
this girder failure impossible.
The
second Consensus Panel study
deals with NIST’s claim that it did not recover any steel from this massive
steel-frame skyscraper.
This
is extraordinary, given the need to understand why a steel-frame building would
have completely collapsed for the first time in history from fire alone, and to
thereby prevent a recurrence.
We
know now that some of the steel was recovered.
Photographs recently
obtained by researchers show the strange curled-up paper-thin WTC 7 steel, with
a NIST investigator pointing it out.
The
third Panel study shows
that on September 11, 2001, many people were told hours in advance that WTC 7 was
going to collapse.
MSNBC
reporter Ashleigh Banfield said early in the afternoon: "I’ve heard
several reports from several different officers now that that is the building
that is going to go down next.”
Many
members of the New York Fire Department were confidently waiting for the
building to come down:
Firefighter
Thomas Donato: "We were standing, waiting for seven to come down. We were
there for quite a while, a couple hours.”
Assistant
Commissioner James Drury: "I must have lingered there. There were hundreds
of firefighters waiting to -- they were waiting for 7 World Trade Center to
come down.”
Chief Thomas
McCarthy: “So when I get to the command post, they just had a flood of guys
standing there. They were just waiting for 7 to come down.”
In
addition, CNN and the BBC made premature announcements.
This foreknowledge corroborates the evidence presented in previous
Consensus Points (WTC7-1 to WTC7-5)
that WTC 7 was brought down by controlled demolition.
Source: The 9/11 Consensus Panel @911consensus consensus911@gmail.com
Contact
List: http://www.consensus911.org/
Co-founders: David Ray Griffin, Elizabeth Woodworth
