Insurers conduct inquiry

into a 9/11 building crash

An FOIA advocate offered the following material concerning the third skyscraper that collapsed on Sept. 11, 2011 (it contained the CIA New York station). This material was copied from a site for journalists. The man who posted it has no affiliation with Newz from Limbo. He requested that his name be removed from this post immediately after Newz from Limbo published a post on the media's taboo on domestic communism and its impact on the 2012 presidential campaign.


[For background, see my report

9/11 probers skipped key forensic tests
http://www.angelfire.com/ult/znewz1/trade7.html]

MASSIVE WTC DOCUMENT RELEASE BY NIST
By Michael Ravnitzky , mikerav@verizon.net

The National Institute of Standards and Technology - NIST - has supplied a
massive quantity of documents in response to two FOIA requests it received
in 2008 regarding the World Trade Center disaster.

First:  On November 20, 2008, the law firm Gennet, Kallmann, Antin &
Robinson, representing Consolidated Edison and its insurers, submitted a
FOIA request seeking a wide variety of documents about the collapse of the
WTC Building 7.  Attorney Michael S. Leavy at Gennet, Kallmann filed four
FOIA requests in all, copies of which are posted here by NIST:

http://wtc.nist.gov/FOIA/FOIArequests09_15_42_63_88.pdf

The primary request was number 09-15 and the following notes apply primarily
to that NIST FOIA request number.

Over the next three and a half years, the fruits of these requests were
quite sizable.  The firm paid for the costs of search, review and
duplication.

For example, in the fourth interim response, NIST released 4,965 images on
15 CD-ROM disks, and one external hard drive.

The first, second, third, and fifth interim responses were comprised of a
small number of electronic files/images.

In the sixth interim response, NIST released 6,681 files and images.

In the seventh interim response, NIST released 784 files on 35 CD-ROM disks.

In the eighth interim response, NIST released 27,563 files and images on 13
CD-ROM disks.

In the ninth interim response, NIST released 1,529 files and images on two
CD-ROM disks.

In the tenth interim response, NIST released 1,856 files and images on 3
CD-ROM disks.

In the eleventh interim response, NIST released 191 files - photos and video
clips - on five CD-ROMS, and 11 full length videos on eleven disks.

In the twelfth interim response, NIST released 6,739 photos and vidoes on 21
disks.

In the thirteenth interim response, NIST released 50 images scanned from
hard copy photos and three full length videos on three disks.

In the fourteenth interim response, NIST released 222 full length videos on
261 disks, and 2,343 images on 37 disks.

In the fifteenth interim response, NIST released 7,406 images on a disk.

In the sixteenth interim response, NIST released 59,818 images on 27 disks,
and 34 video files on 4 disks.  Along with the sixteenth interim response,
NIST provided a Vaughn Index of the records that are being withheld along
with the reasons for withholding those records, or why they are privileged
from release.

In the seventeenth interim response, NIST released 953 images on 126 disks.

NIST is still in the process of supplying rolling releases.

These materials have, in general, not been made available online or
elsewhere.

You can ask NIST for a copy of the files, images, videos and documents
released to date to the Gennet, Kallmann law firm in FOIA request 09-15.
Since these records have already been retrieved and reviewed, charges should
be limited to duplication costs only.  You might wish to specify receiving
the files on a hard drive given the large number of images and files
available.

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Another wide-ranging FOIA request concerning the WTC 7 Building Collapse was
filed on November 20, 2008 by the Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP law
firm and associate attorney Kimberly C. Spiering, who represent Citigroup in
WTC related litigation.  This request, designated as 09-13, also resulted in
voluminous records provided on disk.

You can ask NIST for an electronic copy of the records provided to Cleary
Gottlieb in request 09-13 if you wish.