Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth Letter to Congressman Robert

(UPDATE: Hyperlinks added, July 1, 2008. -rep)

Richard Gage, AIA
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Inc.
www.AE911Truth.org

July 1, 2008

Via Electronic Mail to: lisa.white@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Honorable Robert Wexler
2241 Rayburn House Office Building
Wa****ngton, DC 20515

Dear Congressman Wexler:

My name is Richard Gage, AIA, a 20-year licensed practicing architect and
member of the 
American Institute of Architects. I am founder of Architects & Engineers
for 9/11 Truth, 
Inc.(1), and I am asking for your help in a matter of grave im****tance to
the United States of 
America.

Just over a year ago, I heard on a radio program new facts and compelling
arguments regarding 
the terrible events at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. I was
stunned. After 
completing some investigation, I realized that we had not been told the
truth about the events 
of that day.

Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth was born and we began an online
petition drive for fellow 
architects and engineers who are also determined to learn and publicize
what really happened to 
the three World Trade Center Towers that collapsed on 9/11.

We developed a multimedia presentation(2) that exposes the myth of the
official explanation 
using simple, rational forensic inquiry and basic physics. I travel the
country speaking to 
building professionals and others to expose the fallacies. The response to
this presentation is 
the same everywhere I go. A simple show of hands before and after reveals
that about 90% of 
those who believe the "fire-weakened steel" hypothesis come to accept the
"controlled 
demolition with explosives" hypothesis after the presentation. The
explanations of the 
destruction of the iconic Twin Towers and WTC Building 7(3) offered by
FEMA and NIST defy laws 
of physics. This is easy to prove and has been proven beyond a reasonable
doubt. The existing, 
prevalent physical evidence shows that the explanations offered cannot be
true. That such 
serious inconsistencies remain unaddressed, and that additional questions
remain unanswered – 
even unasked – is untenable. We must pursue them now.

AE911Truth.org operates an increasingly popular website that receives more
than a thousand 
daily visits. We host over 2,000 petition signers(4), of whom more than
400 are 
degreed/licensed architects and engineers. Our licensed A/E's have agreed
to uphold a code of 
ethics upon obtaining their licensure and they are meeting that obligation
today by responding 
with great courage to the myth that we know as 9/11.

They ask the following questions and do***ent these observations, which
are just a few of many 
that remain unanswered or ignored by those who, at the behest ultimately
of the White House, 
directed the official investigations:

• Why did more than 100 FDNY first responders describe, in great detail,
the sounds of 
explosions and flashes of light that they saw and heard at the onset, and
during, the collapse? 
Why did we not know about these 10,000 pages of FDNY "oral history"
evidence until August, 2005 
– and only then after a court order for their release? FDNY's own Chief of
Safety, Albert Turi, 
and FDNY's nationally recognized Chief, Ray Downey, the "premiere collapse
expert in the 
country" according to a fellow chief, both spoke of the presence of
explosives in the Towers 
prior to their failures. More than 100 testimonies referring to multiple,
violent explosions(5) 
were ignored by the 9/11 Commission, NIST and FEMA.
• What was the energy source, and through what mechanism was it applied,
that pulverized 
400,000 cubic yards of concrete(6) into a fine powder that blanketed
Manhattan? Calculations 
show that the energy requirement for this was greater than the available
gravitational 
potential energy of the structures. Is this the same energy source that is
responsible for the 
complete obliteration of more than 1,100 human bodies that were never
found?
• How were massive structural steel members hurled(7) from the Twin Towers
at 70 mph – some of 
them landing 600 feet away?
• Why were most windows within 400 feet of each tower blown out?(8)
• Why were virtually no floors found at the base of either Twin Tower?(9)
There were originally 
110 floors – each of them one acre in size. What explains the
disappearance of 220 acres of 
four-inch thick concrete and steel decking?
• Why were there explosive ejections of dust & gases(10) (squibs) 20, 40
and 60 stories below 
the rapidly descending "collapse" in each tower? These can be seen in many
publicly available 
videos and show rapidly ejecting pulverized building materials – over 200
feet a second.
• How did the elevated building mass destroy 80,000 tons of structural
steel at near free-fall 
speed(11), and with such radial symmetry?(12) Given the asymmetrical
structural and fire damage 
and the tendency of any disorder to grow over time (as described by the
Second Law of 
Thermodynamics), the falling building sections should have "rolled off" of
the intact sections 
below, resulting in only partial collapses.
• Given that open-air jet fuel fires and normal office fires both burn at
a maximum of around 
1,500° F., and the melting point of steel is around 2,700° F., what
thermal energy source 
produced the tons of molten metal observed flowing out of the South
Tower(13) shortly before 
its collapse – and also seen for weeks after 9/11/01 in the basements(14)
of the Twin Towers 
and Building 7 by numerous witnesses, including the WTC structural
engineer, Leslie Robertson.
• What explains the chemical evidence of thermite(15), an incendiary
material found on the ends 
of steel beams? In Appendix C of its BPAT Re****t, FEMA do***ented that
"evidence of a severe 
high temperature corrosion attack on the steel, including oxidation and
sulfidation with 
subsequent intergranular melting, was readily visible in the near-surface
microstructure." This 
is clearly not a feature of gravitational collapse, or jet fuel or office
fires.
• What is the source of the billions of microspheres consisting of
previously molten iron(17) 
in all the pulverized concrete of the World Trade Center? The United
States Geological Survey, 
in its "Particle Atlas of World Trade Center Dust Re****t," and RJ Lee
Group, Inc., in its 
December 2003 WTC Dust Signature Re****t: Composition and Morphology, both
do***ent these 
once-molten drops of metal without explanation. These microspheres also
contain the chemical 
signature of thermite, an incendiary material used to cut through steel
like a hot knife 
through butter.
• Why did Building 7 start its sudden and uniform collapse(18) at an
acceleration rate nearly 
that of a body in free fall? Video analysis shows the upper ****tion of the
structure 
accelerating at the maximum rate gravity allows. This can only mean that
the structure below 
offered no resistance. What mechanism can account for the simultaneous
failure of the critical 
number and distribution of columns required to produce this rate of
acceleration? NIST now 
attributes the catastrophic collapse of Building 7 to "normal office
fires," with little to no 
contribution from falling debris or diesel fuel. At this suggestion by
NIST, are we to suddenly 
accept that our understanding of fire science, materials and structural
behavior has been 
deeply flawed? The American Institute of Architects has steadfastly
resisted changes to the 
building codes after 9/11! Here is the potent 5-minute AE911Truth
executive summary testimony 
delivered to NIST(19) on Dec 18, 2007.

On behalf of the more than 2,000 petition signers at Architects &
Engineers for 9/11 Truth – 
and of the thousands of citizens becoming aware of this deception
regarding the destruction of 
these three high-rises on 9/11 – I urge you to spend ONE HOUR of your
undivided attention to 
review the stunning evidence that answers these crucial questions.

Joel Hirschorn, Ph.D., Senior Staff Member of the Congressional Office of
Technology 
*****sment, and AE911Truth.org petition signer, states "First, let the
technical truths emerge. 
Then, if necessary, cope with the inevitable political and conspiracy
issues."

We have the technical expertise to sup****t your own research into the
collapses of the 3 World 
Trade Center high-rise "collapses" on 9/11, and we offer ourselves in
service to you.

Respectfully,

Mr. Richard Gage, AIA

cc: Members of the Board, AE911Truth.org, Inc.

References:

1. http://www.ae911truth.org/.
2. http://www.ae911truth.net/ppt_web/slideshow.php.
3. http://www.ae911truth.org/wtc7.php.
4. http://www.ae911truth.org/signpetition.php.
5.
http://www.journalof911studies.com/articles/Article_5_118Witnesses_World....
6. http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/collapses/concrete.html.
7. http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/collapses/mushrooming.html.
8. http://911research.wtc7.net/talks/wtc/expulsion.html.
9. http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/collapses/steel.html.
10. http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/collapses/squibs.html.
11.
http://www.journalof911studies.com/articles/Journal_5_PTransferRoss.pdf.
12. http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/collapses/symmetry.html.
13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_jiCyMkrRM.
14.
http://www.journalof911studies.com/volume/200609/Why_Indeed_Did_the_WTC_....
15.
http://www.journalof911studies.com/volume/200704/JLobdillThermiteChemist....
16. http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/metallurgy/WTC_apndxC.htm.
17. http://www.journalof911studies.com/articles/WTCHighTemp2.pdf.
18.
http://www.journalof911studies.com/volume/200611/911-Acceleration-Study-....
19. http://www.911blogger.com/node/13263