INVESTIGATION REFERENCE MATERIALS
National Standards for
Fire Investigation
NIST reasons for refusing to follow Standards
U.S. Government Evidence & Reports
POST 9/11 - Independent Evaluation
Sudden Building Collapse
An Independent Evaluation of a New Risk in Operational Fire-fighting
Quotes about the Investigation
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9/11 Commission co-chair Lee Hamilton says “I don’t believe for a minute we got everything right”, that the Commission was set up to fail, that people should keep asking questions about 9/11, and that the 9/11 debate should continue
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The 9/11 Commission chair said the Commission was “set up to fail”
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The Commission’s co-chairs said that the CIA (and likely the White House) “obstructed our investigation”
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9/11 Commissioner Timothy Roemer said “We were extremely frustrated with the false statements we were getting”
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9/11 Commissioner Max Cleland resigned from the Commission, stating: “It is a national scandal”; “This investigation is now compromised”; and “One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up”. When asked in 2009 if he thought there should be another 9/11 commission, Cleland responded: “There should be about fifteen 9/11 commissions”
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The Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission (John Farmer) – who led the 9/11 staff’s inquiry – said “At some level of the government, at some point in time…there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened“. He also said “I was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described …. The tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public for two years…. This is not spin. This is not true.”