A White Paper on NIST's Omissions, Distortions, and Fraud

Editor's Note: In recent years, various members of the AE911Truth team have been working on a white paper titled “Areas of Specific Concern in the NIST WTC Reports.” Last month they finally completed the document. Its 25 concise points offer the most convincing proof that the reports produced by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on the September 11, 2001, destruction of the three World Trade Center buildings were unscientific and fraudulent. The authors of "The 25 Points" designed the document to provide material that would compel the convening of a grand jury. Whether or not a grand jury is ever impaneled in any jurisdiction, though, readers of this white paper have the duty and privilege of acting as a virtual grand jury in all jurisdictions. After weighing the evidence meticulously laid out in "The 25 Points," readers can, by their resulting actions, help determine whether there will one day be a new, fully funded, truly independent, wholly transparent, and unimpeachably honest investigation of 9/11.

Areas of Specific Concern in the NIST WTC Reports

Below is a series of twenty-five provable points which clearly demonstrate that the reports produced by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on the destruction of the World Trade Center (WTC) were unscientific and fraudulent. Therefore NIST itself – including its lead authors, Shyam Sunder and John Gross - should be investigated.

Table of Contents

WTC 7 – THE THIRD SKYSCRAPER	2
1. OMISSION OF GIRDER STIFFENERS SHOWN ON FRANKEL DRAWING #9114	2
2. OMISSION OF THREE LATERAL SUPPORT BEAMS ON THE 13TH FLOOR G3005 BEAM	2
3. WTC 7 COLLAPSE AT FREE-FALL ACCELERATION IS NOT EXPLAINED	3
4. VIDEOS OF THE COLLAPSE OF WTC 7 BETRAY NIST’S COMPUTER MODEL	3
5. CLAIMS OF INVESTIGATING CONTROLLED DEMOLITION WITHOUT TESTING FOR EXPLOSIVE RESIDUES	4
6. CHANGES OF STATEMENTS ON COMPOSITE BEAMS AND SHEAR STUD USE BETWEEN DRAFTS	5
7. REFUSING OF FOIA REQUESTS	6
ALL THREE BUILDINGS	6
8. NEGLIGENCE IN SALVAGING STEEL	6
9. IGNORING THE RESULTS OF FEMA 403, APPENDIX C	6
10. INVOLVEMENT IN NOT SAVING STEEL FOR INVESTIGATION	7
11. FIRE SIMULATIONS AND DURATIONS ARE EXAGGERATED	8
12. NO DISCUSSION OF THE MOLTEN METAL FOUND IN THE RUBBLE OF THE THREE COLLAPSED BUILDINGS.	8
13. REFUSAL TO TEST FOR EXPLOSIVE RESIDUE	9
14. FAILURE TO FOLLOW STANDARD FIRE INVESTIGATION PROTOCOL	10
THE TWIN TOWERS	10
15. STRIPPING OF THE FIRE PROOFING IS EXAGGERATED	10
16. PRE-COLLAPSE STEEL TEMPERATURES ARE EXAGGERATED	11
17. TESTED FLOOR ASSEMBLIES DID NOT FAIL	11
18. INITIATION OF COLLAPSE – “INWARD BOWING” WAS INDUCED ARTIFICIALLY	12
19. COLUMN STRESS DUE TO LOAD REDISTRIBUTION IS NOT SUFFICIENT TO CAUSE FAILURE	12
20. NO EXPLANATION GIVEN FOR HORIZONTAL PROPAGATION OF COLLAPSE	12
21. WTC 1 TILT OCCURRED AFTER SYMMETRICAL COLLAPSE FOR AT LEAST TWO STORIES	13
22. NO JOLT – CONTINUOUS ACCELERATION OF COLLAPSE WAS IGNORED	14
23. NO PILE DRIVER IS OBSERVED IN VIDEOS	16
24. COLUMN LOADS WERE CALCULATED FOR WORST CASE, NOT ACTUAL IN-SERVICE LOADS	17
25. MOLTEN METAL OBSERVED POURING OUT OF THE CORNER OF WTC 2 REMAINS UNRESOLVED	17

WTC 7 – THE THIRD SKYSCRAPER

1. OMISSION OF GIRDER STIFFENERS SHOWN ON FRANKEL DRAWING #9114

Technical Statement: NIST maintains that WTC 7 collapsed due to fire acting upon the 13th floor A2001 girder between columns 79 and 44 and the beams framing into it from the east. They said that the beams expanded by 5.5” (revised in June 2012 to 6.25”), broke the girder erection bolts, and pushed this girder off its column 79 seat. This girder fell to floor 12, which then precipitated a cascade of floor failures from floor 12 down to floor 5, and column 79 then became unsupported laterally, causing it to buckle. It is then said that column 79's buckling caused the upper floors to cascade down, which started a

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