Reply #125: I don't make stuff up

[Kevin Fenton]

North Tower
"Now, the south side floors had sagged to the point where the south perimeter columns bowed inwards (Figure 2-12). By 10:23 a.m., the south exterior wall had bowed inward as much as 55 in."
Taken from page 86 of the NIST .pdf file, which you can find here:
http://wtc.nist.gov/pubs/NISTNCSTAR1Draft.pdf

South Tower
"The inward bowing of the columns on the east wall spread along the east face." Page 98.
In both cases the bowing became pronounced a few minutes before the towers fell. The NIST has produced photos to back up this claim.
My argument is that a person watching the towers to check for signs of structural instability would have been worried about the bowing (in my view it was not a good reason to demolish the WTC, because it only affected the top 10-30 floors and only a partial collapse was possible, not a complete collapse).

Cover Story?
I'm suggesting that the explosives were placed in the WTC to demolish the towers following a 1993-style bombing (I suppose you could call this a semi-legitimate use of explosives, although I think it's shocking). I am NOT saying that it was a legitimate use of them.
I don't believe in LIHOP or MIHOP (for various reasons, for example, I'm sure that if they'd known in advance they could have thought of a better excuse for POTUS than "I was reading a goat story." or a better one for Myers than "I don't have a cell phone."). Perhaps a majority of people in the world think the attacks were genuine, the government didn't know in advance and that it only started to manipulate them for its own nefarious ends after 10:07 on 9/11 at the earliest. I agree with the first two points, but just have the timing a little different - the most likely explanation to me is that Cheney, et al. started manipulating the attacks while they were in progress.

BTW, if explosives were placed in the WTC after the 1993 attacks (or if a plan to do this was drawn up), that would explain why the democrats are making so little fuss about all this.