by Lionel Bascom — March 19th, 2007 — 1 comment
It’s not news that Rosie O’Donnell is capable of shooting off her mouth. This time, the talk show star is saying the World Trade Center may have been brought down deliberately on Sept. 11 to get rid of government records investigating corporate fraud.
I spent years traipsing in and out of government offices in the Trade Center, so the towers were home to any number of government offices that could have been repositories for fraud investigation files.
On her Rosie.com blog, Rosie is quoted as saying:
0. The fires in WTC 7 were not evenly distributed, so a perfect collapse was impossible.
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0. Silverstein said to the fire department commander “the smartest thing to do is pull it.”
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0. Firefighters withdrawing from the area stated the building was going to “blow up.”
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0. The roof of WTC 7 visibly crumbled and the building collapsed perfectly into its footprint.
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Molten steel and partially evaporated steel members were found in the debris.
The remainder of O’Donnell’s blog entry on 9/11 consists of a listing of various records supposedly destroyed in the collapse of WTC7, apparently meant to imply the building was brought down so as to eliminate records of investigations of Enron and other companies. Citing various sources at the end of each paragraph, O’Donnell writes:
WTC 7 contained offices of the FBI, Department of Defense, IRS (which contained prodigious amounts of corporate tax fraud, including Enron’s), US Secret Service, Securities & Exchange Commission (with more stock fraud records), and Citibank’s Salomon Smith Barney, the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management and many other financial institutions.
Online Journal
The SEC has not quantified the number of active cases in which substantial files were destroyed [by the collapse of WTC 7]. Reuters news service and the Los Angeles Times published reports estimating them at 3,000 to 4,000. They include the agency’s major inquiry into the manner in which investment banks divvied up hot shares of initial public offerings during the high-tech boom. … “Ongoing investigations at the New York SEC will be dramatically affected because so much of their work is paper-intensive,” said Max Berger of New York’s Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann. “This is a disaster for these cases.” New York Lawyer
There is no doubt that important records were destroyed and there is no doubt that some very important work has been lost. What it all means? Rosie’s guess is as good as mine.
8:43 PM in Uncategorized, World Trade Center, Ground Zero, Related Stories, Freedom Tower News, Politics
Some individuals contend that “there is no such thing as coincidence.” Perhaps, that is true. I agree, there were many official documents destroyed in the disaster of 9/11, but deliberately destroyed by U.S. government agencies? I have a difficult time with that scenario.
Rosie O’Donnell is a gifted entertainer, has a terrific sense of humor, and she loves New York, but as far as having inside knowledge of the F.B.I., major governmental investigations, and structural engineering, no. The fact that many Americans would believe Rosie to be an erudite scholar of these matters is disconcerting.
The term, factoid, is an excellent choice for the title of this entry.
Jeanne · March 19th, 2007 at 9:31 pm