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Originally posted by ModernAcademia
I am VERY interested in seeing what will come to light if anything about this.
Originally posted by HotDogNoBun
Two things.
1. The government stored some of the steel away in a warehouse somewhere.
2. I bet they dont find anything but the steel failed from the damage of the impacts and fires started when the planes hit them.
The Judge proceeded to invite discourse on why an investigation was needed. When McMahon raised as an example the 9/11 Commission’s omission of the collapse of Building 7 from its final report, the Judge replied in puzzlement, “Building what?”
When asked by the Judge whether or not there has been an investigation into 9/11 by New York City authorities, Steve Kitzinger, the City’s lawyer, replied, “It’s irrelevant”, to which the packed courtroom was loudly disdainful, some openly laughing in disbelief. At which point Mr. Kitzinger prevailed upon Judge Lehner to quiet the crowd, which the Judge did.
With order restored, the Judge again asked Kitzinger if the City had done anything to investigate 9/11. Kitzinger flatly responded, “No.”
“The City never did anything?” retorted the Judge in disbelief. Nothing, Kitzinger admitted.
As part of his unrelenting attack on the NYC CAN petition, Kitzinger repeatedly alluded to the proposed commission’s intention to investigate national security matters beyond its jurisdiction such as “intelligence failures”. A simple reading of the petition shows such assertions to be completely unfounded.
Later, Judge Lehner seemed unimpressed by Kitzinger’s argument pertaining to the limited jurisdiction of New York City to investigate 9/11, on the grounds of inherent limits to a municipality’s subpoena power. “You can investigate anything, can’t you?” the Judge asked rhetorically. “Because somebody may have jurisdiction over certain witnesses doesn’t mean you can’t have a commission.”
On the complicated question of the commission being a privately funded entity but still having subpoena power granted under the auspices of New York City government, the Judge made comments that gave the Petitioners hope for a favorable ruling. “You want a law that says this private commission shall have the right to subpoena people?” To which McMahon assented. Offering similar examples, the Judge noted, “A private lawyer can issue subpoenas… a lawyer issues [subpoenas] in connection with an action [during] litigation in court.”
After the hearing, the consensus among NYC CAN members and supporters in attendance was that Judge Lehner is intrigued by the proposed referendum, and that he will give both sides’ arguments due consideration.
Near the end of the hearing, McMahon stated emphatically, “The citizens are desperate. We want to find out what really happened on 9/11.”
Originally posted by SilentRunning
Originally posted by UmbraSumus
reply to post by SilentRunning
post by SilentRunning
Breaking !! WTC steel brought back to NYC for investigation !
Was that the headline CNN carried ?
Yes, the CNN Live Stream headline was : "hauled back to NYC for structural investigation" ...
Originally posted by mrpotatohead
I think it's like"shades of the fox guarding the hen house" kind of thing. Does anyone really expect anything else??
Originally posted by Desolate Cancer
Originally posted by network dude
what they should be studying is the affects that brought down three buildings with such precision. Imagine how much the controlled demo guys could save if all they had to do is smack a building with a fuel tank to bring it down. Heck, they could even duplicate the WTC7 affects and bring skyscrapers down with a few office fires and some rocks being thrown at them. silly people.
Wait I thought it was official story that wtc7 was a controlled demolition? I was under the impression that the nyc or port authority officials had requested that wtc7 be brought down in a controlled manner since they were afraid there was structural problems and didnt want it to collapse unexpectedly and in an unsafe manner.
They're going to use it in the memorial. There's a hundred articles saying what I just said and ZERO saying what the OP said.
1 World Trade Center
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This article contains information about expected future buildings or structures. Some or all of this information may be speculative, and the content may change as building construction begins.
1 World Trade Center
Artist's rendering of 1 World Trade Center with Midtown Manhattan and the Empire State Building in the background.
Information
Location Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Status Under construction
Groundbreaking April 27, 2006
Estimated completion April 2013 (target)[1]
Opening 4Q 2013
Use Office, Dining, Observation, Retail, WTO
Height
Antenna/Spire 1,776 ft (541.3 m)
Roof 1,368 ft (417 m)
Top floor 1,362 ft (415 m)
Technical details
Floor count 109 (including rooftop)
Floor area 2,600,000 sq ft (242,000 m2)
Companies
Architect David Childs (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill), Thomas Boada
Structural Engineer WSP Cantor Seinuk
Developer Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
1 World Trade Center, formerly known as the Freedom Tower,[2] is the main building of the new World Trade Center under construction in Lower Manhattan in New York City, USA.[3] The tower will be located in the northwest corner of the 16-acre (65,000 m²) World Trade Center site, bound by Vesey, West, Washington and Fulton streets.[4] Construction on below-ground utility relocations, footings, and foundations for the 1,776-foot (541 m)[5][6] building began on April 27, 2006.[7] On December 19, 2006, the first steel columns were installed in the building's foundation. Three other high-rise office buildings are planned for the site along Greenwich Street, and they will surround the World Trade Center Memorial, which is under construction. The area will also be home to a museum dedicated to the history of the site. On March 26, 2009, the Port Authority said that the building will be known as 'One World Trade Center', replacing its former name 'Freedom Tower'.
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A final design for the tower was formally unveiled on June 28, 2006. To satisfy security issues raised by the New York City Police Department a 187 foot (57 m) concrete base was added in April of that year. The final design included plans to clad the base in glass prisms to address criticism that the base looked like a "concrete bunker." Contrasting with Libeskind's plan, the final design tapers the corners of the base outward as they rise. Its designers stated that the tower will be a "monolithic glass structure reflecting the sky and topped by a sculpted antenna." Commenting on a completion date, Larry Silverstein stated "By 2012 we should have a completely rebuilt World Trade Center more magnificent, more spectacular than it ever was."[9] On April 26, 2006, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey approved a conceptual framework that enabled foundation construction to begin while a formal agreement was drafted on the following day, the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Empire State Building. Construction began with a formal ceremony that took place when the construction team arrived.[10] It is projected that the building's topping out will occur in 2011. The building is projected to be ready for occupancy at some point in 2013.
Originally posted by HotDogNoBun
Two things.
1. The government stored some of the steel away in a warehouse somewhere.
2. I bet they dont find anything but the steel failed from the damage of the impacts and fires started when the planes hit them.
The severe corrosion and subsequent erosion of Sample 1 and 2 are a very unusual event. No clear explanation for the source of the sulfur has been identified. The rate of corrosion is also unknown. It is possible that this is the result of long-term heating in the ground following the collapse of the buildings. It is also possible that the phenomenon started prior to the collapse and accelerated the weakening of the steel structure. A detailed study into the mechanisms of this phenomenon is needed to determine what risk, if any, is presented to existing steel structures exposed to severe and long-burning fires
Why didn't the investigators look at actual steel samples from WTC 7? Steel samples were removed from the site before the NIST investigation began. In the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, debris was removed rapidly from the site to aid in recovery efforts and facilitate emergency responders’ efforts to work around the site. Once it was removed from the scene, the steel from WTC 7 could not be clearly identified. Unlike the pieces of steel from WTC 1 and WTC 2, which were painted red and contained distinguishing markings, WTC 7 steel did not contain such identifying characteristics.