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We wrote on August 4, 2002: The Jeff Rense web site http://rense.com/general28/FEDswithholdcrucial.htm has an important article regarding the news story below. The article and the news story do support

a. that explosives not burning jet fuel took down the WTC buildings and

b. that national security was again used as a mask to keep the report from the public until a more convenient time and place.

We say it again: we have never heard an analysis from a demolition expert and this highlighted point is confirmed by the obvious fact that the firefighters were able to communicate from higher floors until just about the time the building collapsed. Needless to point out, if the building was reaching the high temperatures claimed by the misinformation theorists, people and equipment would have been neutralized well before the actual collapse.

Report: FDNY Reached WTC Crash Site

.c The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - A tape of emergency radio transmissions on Sept. 11 shows that firefighters reached the burning 78th floor of the south tower where the jetliner sliced through, nearly 30 floors higher than officials had estimated.

Four people who have listened to the tape said at least two firefighters reached the crash site and were helping the injured, The New York Times reported for Sunday editions.

The 78-minute tape was found in the rubble months ago but was not played until fire officials signed a confidentiality agreement.

The agreement was requested because the tape may be used as evidence in the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, accused of conspiracy in the Sept. 11 attacks. Moussaoui, who faces the death penalty, has said he is a loyal member of al-Qaida but denies a role in Sept. 11.

SenderBerl: Moussaoui serves the sole purpose of establishing a cover to hide evidence which will bring forth the truth regarding 9-11. SenderBerl argues throughout that the use of national security to hide truth to which the American public is entitled, is criminal, and an affirmative misuse of the judicial system and process.

Officials had thought that firefighters had not climbed higher than the 50th floor in either tower. United Flight 175 crashed into the south tower between the 78th and 84th floors. American Airlines Flight 11 sliced through the north tower near the 91st floor.

Most of the transmissions on the tape came from the south tower.

The fire department has identified the voices of at least 16 firefighters on the recording, and the families were invited to listen to the tape Friday after signing confidentiality agreements.

Debbie Palmer, whose husband, Battalion Chief Orio Palmer, can be heard on the tape, would not break her agreement but said the recording gave her some peace about her husband's last moments.

``I didn't hear fear, I didn't hear panic,'' she told The Times. ``When the tape is made public to the world, people will hear that they all went about their jobs without fear, and selflessly.''

08/04/02 18:24 EDT

Tape of 9/11 Controllers Was Destroyed

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-sept-11-controllers,0,6336834,print.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

By LESLIE MILLER
Associated Press Writer

May 6, 2004, 7:05 PM EDT

WASHINGTON -- Air traffic controllers who handled two of the hijacked flights on Sept. 11, 2001, recorded their experiences shortly after the planes crashed into the World Trade Center but a supervisor destroyed the tape, government investigators said Thursday.

A report by Transportation Department Inspector General Kenneth Mead said the manager for the New York-area air traffic control center asked the controllers to make the recordings a few hours after the crashes in belief they would be important for law enforcement.

Investigators never heard it. Sometime between December 2001 and February 2002, an unidentified Federal Aviation Administration quality assurance manager crushed the cassette case in his hand, cut the tape into small pieces and threw them away in multiple trash cans, the report said.

"We were told that nobody ever listened to, transcribed or duplicated the tape," Mead said in the report sent to Sen. John McCain. The Arizona Republican asked the inspector general to look into how well the agency was cooperating with the independent panel investigating the attacks.

Neither manager told anyone outside the center -- including their superiors and law enforcement officials -- about the tape's existence, the report said. The Sept. 11 commission learned of the tape during interviews with New York air traffic control center personnel between September and October.

The destruction occurred even though the FAA sent a directive three days after the hijackings: "Retain and secure until further notice ALL Administrative/Operational data and records. ... If a question arises whether or not you should retain the data, RETAIN IT."

The quality assurance manager said he destroyed the tape because he felt it violated FAA policy calling for written statements from controllers who have handled a plane involved in an accident or other serious incident. He also said he felt the controllers were not in the right frame of mind to have consented to the taping, the report said.

The manager said he waited several months to destroy the tape because he promised the local controllers' union vice president that he would get rid of it once the control center's formal accident package was complete, the report said. That package was sent to FAA headquarters in November 2001.

The report did not characterize the tape's destruction as an attempted cover-up. But it said the recording could have helped provide a fuller explanation of what happened on Sept. 11.

"What those six controllers recounted in a group setting on Sept. 11, in their own voices, about what transpired that morning, are no longer available to assist any investigation or inform the public," the report said.

Mead said his office referred the case to federal prosecutors in New York, but they declined to prosecute because of lack of criminal intent.

FAA spokesman Greg Martin said the quality control manager was disciplined for violating the directive to keep everything relating to the hijackings and to turn them over to investigators. He said privacy considerations prevented him from disclosing how the manager was disciplined.

Martin said the FAA believes the tape is consistent with written statements and other materials provided to investigators. It "would not have added in any significant way to the information already provided to investigators and members of the 9-11 commission," Martin said.

The report said the controllers who made the tape had either talked to the hijacked planes that crashed into the World Trade Center or were working radar positions that intersected with the jetliners' flight paths.

The report concluded that there was "some measure of consistency" between witness statements later taken from the controllers and what was recorded on the tape. That conclusion was based on interviews with the six controllers and all 10 witnesses to the taping, and on sketchy notes taken during the tape recording. Also retained were radar data and recordings of radio transmissions from the cockpit.

John Carr, president of the air traffic controllers' union, said he did not know whether the manager did the right thing by destroying the tape.

"It was a traumatic time for him," he said. "He was the custodian for the darkest moment in our nation's history."

WTC Surveillance Tapes Feared Missing
Key Evidence to World Trade Center Investigation Feared Destroyed, Missing

The Associated Press

N E W Y O R K, Dec. 9 — Surveillance tapes and maintenance logs are among the missing evidence as investigators try to figure out why the World Trade Center collapsed, federal officials said Monday.

Many documents destroyed in the disaster "are pretty key in carrying out the work," lead investigator Shyam Sunder said.

The 110-story towers collapsed after two hijacked jetliners plowed into the buildings in lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001. Nearly 2,800 people were killed.

Two hypotheses on the cause of the collapse have emerged since the National Institute of Standards and Technology began its $23 million probe three months ago.

Both theories agree the jetliners damaged floor joints and columns inside and outside the buildings. But they vary on whether the fire-weakened columns failed and alone brought down the buildings or whether floor trusses sagged in the intense heat, pulling the columns inward to collapse.

The lost records probably contain vital information that could help answer questions, Sunder said. Investigators are trying to locate copies of many destroyed documents from the building's owners and city agencies.

Also missing are the original contract specifications for the buildings from the early 1970s. Many believed the towers were built to withstand the impact of a Boeing 707 the largest aircraft at the time, but much smaller than the jets that crashed into the buildings.

Researchers plan to spend two years on the study. They will analyze trade center wreckage, rely on steel manufacturing experts and interview survivors, victims' relatives and rescue workers.

They have also created a database of more than 1,900 photographs shot that day as the towers burned and fell and are asking for more. They are especially interested in photographs showing the south face of 7 World Trade Center, which was not hit by a plane but burned for hours before collapsing.

An earlier federal study directed by a civil engineering group was criticized for not examining evacuation procedures.

Unexplained Media Omissions and Silence:

How Did those WTC Buildings Collapse?

by Scott Loughrey
The Washington Post recently (and casually) reported (1/3/03) that the ownership of our nation’s media and entertainment industries is becoming more even more consolidated than they are today. FCC Chairman Michael Powell is determined to relax the restrictions which control how much investment in media and information immense corporations like AOL-Time-Warner can make within individual markets. It has long been the opinion of this writer that media concentration is the Number One problem facing this country. People who dispute this idea always point out that the Internet is a source of information for those who (rightly) avoid the mainstream. However, the Bush right-wing faction (as opposed to the right wing faction that deplores government interference with liberties) is planning an attack on the freedom many of us associate with the “information superhighway” as you read these words.

With a more concentrated media comes the prospect that serious lines of inquiry will not be pursued in a timely fashion to correct problems. For example, what really happened on 9/11/01?

What follows is a cursory examination of some of the many issues that a growing number of people have with what we’ve been told happened that day. These conversations are taking place on the Internet exclusively because neither the mainstream nor the established left media are giving these ideas much attention. In the case of the latter, the failure of left-stalwarts such as Z Magazine (to name one) to discuss these matters is attracting hard criticism (link) from well-respected intellectuals.

Let’s start with the World Trade Center (WTC) twin towers. How did they collapse? The explanation so far (link) is that the temperature from the burning jet fuel of the two planes was sufficient to weaken the steel trusses supporting both buildings. This made their collapsing “inevitable.” End of story.

However, a lot of people are wondering (link) why both buildings collapsed so neatly. Why were there no major amounts of debris in contact with neighboring buildings?