from 9-11Research Website

 

What is the Federal Emergency Management Agency? from FreedomFiles Website . Simply put, it is the "secret government". This agency has powers and authority that go well beyond any other agency in the nation. What can FEMA do? It can suspend laws. It can move entire populations. It can arrest and detain citizens without a warrant and can hold them without a trial. It can seize property, food supplies, and transportation systems. And it can even suspend the Constitution of the United States. When the first concept had been presented, its original mission was to assure the survivability of the United States Government in the event of a nuclear attack. It's secondary function was to be a Federal coordinating body during times of domestic disasters. These disasters consisted of earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes. The "secret" black helicopters that are reported throughout the US, mainly in the West California, Washington, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Colorado areas are flown by FEMA personnel. It has been given the responsibility for many new national disasters such as forest fires, home heating emergencies, refugee situations, riots, and emergency planning for nuclear and toxic incidents. It works together with the Sixth Army in the West. A series of Executive Orders (EO) was used to create FEMA. It does not matter whether an EO is Constitutional or not, it becomes a law simply by being published in the Federal Registry. These orders go around Congress.

 

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) produced the first official government report attempting to explain the destruction of the three World Trade Center towers as structural collapses induced by plane crashes and fires.

 

It also appeared to play a central role in the "cleanup" of Ground Zero, which led to the destruction of nearly all of the body of evidence any thorough investigation would need.

 

 

 

Investigation History

 

In the wake of the attack a group of engineers from the the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) volunteered to investigate the structural responses of the WTC buildings to the September 11 attack. Eventually FEMA took over the investigation of the ASCE volunteers, dubbing them the Building Performance Assessment Team (BPAT).

 

W. Gene Corley, Ph.D, Senior Vice President of Construction Technologies Laboratory in Skokie, IL, served as principal investigator. Corley was also the principal investigator for FEMA's study of the 1995 Murrah Federal Office Building attack. The BPAT's investigation was funded by $600,000 from FEMA and $500,000 in ASCE in-kind contributions. ¹   By December of 2001 $100,000 had been spent on the investigation.

 

The BPAT lacked subpoena power, hence was unable to obtain access to important documents such as engineering drawings of the buildings. ²  

 

In May of 2002 FEMA released its World Trade Center Building Performance Study. Available at http://www.fema.gov/library/wtcstudy.shtm until March of 2005, is has since showed up at http://www.fema.gov/rebuild/mat/wtcstudy.shtm

 

We have reproduced it in full at this permanent mirror.

 

 

 

FEMA's Report

 

FEMA published its Report in the form of PDF documents only. The anonymous author who created the nerdcities.com/guardian website provided most of the chapters in HTML, several with added comments.

 

Those chapters are listed here as well as in our partial mirror of the nerdcities.com/guardian website.

Selected chapters and appendices from FEMA's report

(commented by 'guardian' author)

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction (with comment)
Chapter 2 WTC 1 and WTC 2 (with comment)
Chapter 3 WTC 3
Chapter 4 WTC 4, 5, and 6
Chapter 5 WTC 7 (with comment)
Chapter 6 Bankers Trust Building
Chapter 7 Peripheral Buildings
Appendix A Overview of Fire Protection in Buildings (with comment)
Appendix B Structural Steel and Steel Connections (with comment)
Appendix D WTC Steel Data Collection (with comment)

The nerdcities.com/guardian author did not provide an HTML version of Appendix C, so we provide it:

Appendix C Limited Metallurgical Examination

 

Report Description

 

Now you see it, now you don't...  Covers from FEMA's Report

Written by members of the BPAT, the Report purports to explain how the jet impacts led to the devastation of the World Trade Center. One of the appendices has pictures, apparently taken at the Fresh Kills landfill, of people sporting hard-hats and tape-measures looking at steel pieces with numbers spray-painted on them.

 

The BPAT apparently didn't rate admission to Ground Zero. The report shows only one photograph of a collapse, but has lots of eye-pleasing colorful illustrations.

 

The Report is illustrated with many colorful cartoon-like drawings, such as one explaining FEMA's postulated floor collapse mechanism. It seems crafted to mislead the casual reader into thinking that the Towers had no core structures.

 

 

Despite its distortions, FEMA's Report provides a substantial amount of data about the event not documented elsewhere, and conspicuously absent from NIST's reports.

 

For example, Appendix C describes observations, interesting from a forensic standpoint, that steel members were severely corroded by sulfidative attack.

 

 

 

References

1. HEARING CHARTER: Learning from 9/11: Understanding the Collapse of the World Trade Center, house.gov, 3/6/02
2. HEARING: Learning From 9/11 - Understanding the Collapse of the World Trade Center, commdocs.house.gov, 3/6/2002 [cached]

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