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July 10, 2008
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Thursday, July 10, 2008
The former New York City chief emergency manager Jerome Hauer, whose
office was on the 23d floor of WTC 7, was also a building collapse
specialist, according to a recently uncovered New York Times
article. Hauer has attracted suspicion from the 9/11 truth movement
because of his zeal to push the official story in the hours after
the attack when details were still sketchy.
Hauer was also Managing Director of Kroll Associates - the company
that provided security for the WTC complex on 9/11 - and he also
betrayed advance knowledge of the anthrax attacks a week before they
happened.
In a July 27 1999 NY Times article unearthed by 9/11 Blogger
entitled [1] What Could Go Wrong? It’s His Job to Know, Hauer is
given a glowing write-up by journalist Randy Kennedy.
“There is one story he tells in which this fascination is quite
literal….But another illustration, a bit more metaphorical, is hard
to miss when you walk into his office on the 23rd floor of 7 World
Trade Center, otherwise known as ”the bunker,” the $13 million
bulletproof, hurricane-proof, blackout-proof emergency crisis center
opened by the city last month.”
The article describes Building 7 for what it was, [2] a structurally
reinforced immovable object built for the express purpose of
standing strong in a crisis situation, not the weakling tinderbox
that allegedly became the first steel building in history to
collapse from fire damage alone, according to debunkers like the
BBC, the History Channel, Popular Mechanics and others.
Indeed, [3] as the NY Times quotes Larry Silverstein as stating in
1989, WTC 7 designers “Built in enough redundancy to allow entire
portions of floors to be removed without affecting the building’s
structural integrity,” a solid structure that was again improved
upon that year with “More than 375 tons of steel - requiring 12
miles of welding.”
The article describes Hauer’s role, “As the city’s chief emergency
manager, Mr. Hauer oversees the response to building collapses, of
which there have been no shortage over the last three years.”
Jerome Hauer: Pictured in 1996 with Rudy Giuliani.
“For much of his professional life, it has been the task of Jerome
M. Hauer, 47, to know a lot about how things work so that when they
stop working — when they fall down, when they get blown down or
blown up, when they freeze or burst or burn out — he knows what to
do. Like all self-described emergency junkies, he sits around all
day thinking up horrifying ways for things to be destroyed and
people to die and then hoping that all his plans stay on the shelf.
Interesting therefore that Hauer would have his office in the middle
of a 47-storey building that collapsed into its own footprint within
7 seconds in the late afternoon of 9/11 having been hit by minimal
debris and suffering limited fire damage.
The article emphasizes the emergencies Hauer would list in his
resume that he was an expert on, “Helicopter crash, subway fire,
water main break, ice storm, heat wave, blackout, building collapse,
building collapse, building collapse.”
In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, Hauer appeared on CBS
News with Dan Rather and immediately set about crafting a
surprisingly affirmative explanation for the events and spun a yarn
that soon became the official story.
Watch the clip.
Hauer was suspiciously keen to stress that the buildings were not
demolished by explosives but by the planes that hit them, [4]
despite this being a complete reversal of what chief WTC architects
and designers had concluded during studies about the impact of
planes into the twin towers beforehand.
Hauer also pointed the finger directly at Bin Laden as the script
began to unfold.
“[M]y sense is that just the velocity of the plane and the fact that
you have a plane filled with fuel hitting that building that burned,
that the velocity of the plane certainly had an impact on the
structure itself. And then the fact that it burned and you had that
intense heat probably weakened the structure as well. And I think it
was simply the planes hitting the buildings and causing the
collapse,” Hauer told Rather.
Rather also asks Hauer if the attacks could have been carried out
without state sponsorship. Hauer replies: “I’m not sure I agree that
this is necessarily state-sponsored. It… certainly has the
fingerprints of somebody like bin Laden.”
Hauer was surprisingly “accurate” with his foreknowledge of how the
official story would later appear to confirm all of his initial
presumptions despite the chaos surrounding the attacks in the hours
after they took place.
On 9/11, Hauer was Managing Director of Kroll Associates, a security
firm intertwined with the military-industrial complex that was also
coincidentally in charge of security for the entire World Trade
Center complex on that fateful day.
Furthermore, it was Hauer that reportedly advised the White House to
begin taking Cipro, an antibiotic which is effective against
anthrax, on the very day of 9/11 and one week before the first
anthrax letter was received.
Two months after 9/11, Hauer was part of a Council on Foreign
Relations panel that released a document entitled Independent Task
Force on America’s Response to Terrorism, which in part called for
alternative explanations behind 9/11 to be countered.
Hauer’s almost instant and precise summation of the cause of
building collapses that were completely unprecedented in history,
along with his “expertise” in the characteristics of controlled
demolition, in addition to his foreknowledge of the anthrax attacks
and his position with Kroll Associates, justifiably continue to
attract interest amongst researchers in the 9/11 truth movement.
[5] RELATED: Meet Jerome Hauer, 9/11 Suspect Awaiting Indictment
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