Please..yall...stop referring to NIST...as the SCIENTIFIC WORLD! The NIST is government owned and operated...geez, just go with me on this..if the government did have involvement...do you really think they would just incriminate themselves by releasing a report that implied there were explosives in the buildings? Seriously now...
Poisoning the well. Just because NIST is government sponsored, that does not mean that:
1) NIST Scientists will lie or fabricate evidence to support a government plot.
2) NIST scientists are held to any lower standard for scientific inquiry than any other member of the scientific community.
Go with me on this, because I find it incredibly offensive that you've chosen to demonize NIST in this way. Why on Earth would the NIST scientists lie and fabricate evidence to support a government collapse theory that they themselves had nothing to do with? Have they all been paid off? How much? What motivation do any of them have to cover up the deaths of 3000 fellow citizens?
NIST scientists represent a wide variety of physicists, chemists, engineers, technicians and computer scientists. In recent years, the physics department at NIST has had 2 Nobel laureates, most recently Jan Olek for the 2005 prize. The NIST NCSTAR1 report also consulted with hundreds of different people including professional engineers, contractors, independent research and the Research Board of Canada. The NIST NCSTAR 1 report and all of the subsequent reports are the result of an enormous, unprecedented collaboration within the scientific community that rivals NASA's moon landing in both complexity and breadth of scientific expertise. This was not just a bunch of NIST scientists getting together and deciding on a theory. They've used evidence, reported that evidence and subjected it to scientific and lay-person scrutiny at every step along the way.
Fact is...the government decided to DESTROY KEY EVIDENCE AT ONE OF THE LARGEST CRIME SCENES IN THE HISTORY OF THE US! DESTROYING evidence is a CRIME NO MATTER HOW YOU LOOK AT IT!
Evidence of what? NIST has a warehouse full of evidence. What does that mean? Did the government destroy all of the evidence that would prove controlled demolition and keep all of the evidence that supported self-initiated collapse?
What's the reason the government gave as to why they destroyed the evidence? FOR NATIONAL SECURITY PURPOSES. That's the excuse they always hide behind...regardless, if it makes absolutely NO SENSE! Are you starting to see it now?
Who said this?
The government TOLD US Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda were responsible...
Actually, OBL and his cronies released a video essentially taking credit for the attack. OBL declared his intention to destroy and commit terrorist attacks against the US in 1998. Why should we assume that he never acted on that threat?
SO WHY THEN...do we bomb Afghanistan for two weeks...
Because Osama was there.
and then invade IRAQ before CATCHING THE CRIMINALS WHO ATTACKED US?
What an excellent point! If the USG wanted an excuse to attack Iraq, they should have made the fake hijackers Iraqi citizens, right? I mean, Saudis are so inconvenient because they were our friends for a while and they helped us out in the Persian Gulf war. Actually, the hijackers should have been Iraqi, Afghani and North Korean citizens. Talk about a smoking gun!