By
Victoria N. Alexander
"9/11:
Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out" is getting public attention and casting
doubt on the scientific validity of the U.S. government's investigation into the
WTC tragedy. PBS is the first major network to air the
program.
Just days
away from the 11th anniversary of the World Trade Center tragedy and months away
from the U.S. presidential election, a game-changing 9/11 documentary is ranking
number three among "most watched" documentaries on PBS and number one among
"most shared." Available for free online August 18th -
September 4th, the documentary could have a significant effect on public
opinion. [Update: PBS has extended viewing indefinitely.] Both the Republicans
and Democrats, as equally staunch defenders of the official story, stand to be
affected if the public's suspicion of government corruption grows
deeper.
An
earlier report on Digital Journal found that the claims made in the documentary
can be verified by reading the government reports themselves. The National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the government agency charged with
the investigation, did not provide any data -- no measurements or estimates --
of the mass or energy that would be required to bring down the buildings in
about ten seconds. Normally a scientific report would present all the data that
is used to construct a theory. The omission of data is a red flag to anyone
familiar with scientific procedure. It appears that the investigators may have
intentionally produced reports that the scientific community would
reject.
According
to the experts appearing in Explosive Evidence, the scientific community did
reject the reports immediately, but it has taken a very long time for this
message to reach the public. Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, the
producers of the documentary, have been trying to educate the public for a
number of years. The PBS broadcast of their work represents a major step forward
for them.
While
most people have probably heard that a scientific investigation has been
conducted and that the building collapses were explained, few have probably
looked at the NIST reports themselves. Links to the NIST reports can be found in
the above mentioned Digital Journal article. NIST provides no data whatsoever on
the actual collapse sequence itself.
The new
attention to the issue could be significant for the U.S. presidential election.
Prior to the publication of the reports in 2005 and 2008, almost half the
population was suspicious of the official story of 9/11, according to several
opinion polls. Since then the 9/11 tragedy has been used to direct the policies
that have led to the enormous increases in military spending and to a loss of
civil liberties in the U.S. and worldwide.
