“9/11 was an inside job”

OPEN THE RECORD

Sources & limits.

Numbered citations in each article identify the relevant sources. These records have different purposes and evidentiary weight.

1. NIST NCSTAR 1: Final Report on the Collapse of the World Trade Center Towers (2005) ↗

   The federal investigation’s report on why the towers fell.

2. NIST NCSTAR 1A: Final Report on the Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 (2008) ↗

   Fire-induced thermal expansion, the Floor 13 girder and Column 79.

3. ASCE (Mlakar et al.), January 2003: The Pentagon Building Performance Report (NIST copy) ↗

   Engineers’ study of the damage path from Flight 77 through the building.

4. 9/11 Commission Report, chapter 1: “We Have Some Planes” ↗

   The minute-by-minute account of the four flights and of the FAA and NORAD response, including the 10:03:11 crash time of United 93 and when the shootdown order reached the pilots.

5. 9/11 Commission Report, chapter 8: “The System Was Blinking Red” ↗

   The summer 2001 threat reporting, the 6 August PDB, the Phoenix memo, Moussaoui and the missed chances on Hazmi and Mihdhar.

6. YouGov, 2023: Which conspiracy theories do Americans believe? ↗

   20% said the government was behind the attacks was definitely or probably true.

7. Democracy Now!, 11 September 2006: Loose Change filmmakers debate Popular Mechanics ↗

   A long, even-handed debate between the two sides.

8. New York Times, 2 January 2008: “Stonewalled by the C.I.A.,” by Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton ↗

   The Commission’s chairman and vice chairman say the CIA never told them about interrogation videotapes it later destroyed. Blocks scripted fetches; confirmed by search.

9. DW, September 2026: 9/11 conspiracy theories that continue to circulate ↗

   Which theories still spread 25 years on. Confirmed by search.