NYTimes: Investigation of Towers' Fall Is Criticized

[KurtNYC]

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 - The three-year federal investigation into the collapse of the World Trade Center failed to sufficiently identify specific changes needed in building codes to ensure that skyscrapers and other tall buildings can better handle a future terrorist attack or even a more routine emergency, members of Congress said Wednesday.

As a result, said Republicans and Democrats on the House Science Committee, the efforts to improve skyscraper safety in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack are moving far too slowly, a situation that they say the federal government and those in charge of establishing national building codes have a moral obligation to correct....

The criticism emerged at a hearing during which the National Institute of Standards and Technology formally released its final report on the collapse of the twin towers, a $16 million study that has produced more than 10,000 pages of findings detailing exactly why the towers were able to stand after being hit by planes, but ultimately collapsed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/27/politics/27codes.html

No secret can exist without a lie(s) to cover it. Plenty of fodder in that article for MIHOP. Says they want specific details -- but of course, how would "better communications" systems prevent a tower from collapsing?

I notice they also balk at the cost of some of the recommendations so far citing, "How many building collapses have there been, ever?"