More 9/11. Our government broke the law.

No matter what you believe about the 9/11 tragedy, there is no way around the fact that our government broke the law. Destruction of evidence at a crime scene is illegal and unethical, and according to Sourcewatch.org, “federal investigators and New York City Police deem scrap metal from the World Trade Center to be crime scene evidence.”

Within weeks of 9/11, the scrap metal was sold to the highest bidders at fire sale prices. Immediately most of the scrap metal was shipped to China to be melted down, and the rest of it was sent off to be buried. While the agencies in charge of investigating the tragedy insist that the scrap metal was catalogued and searched for forensic evidence, it seems impossible that an effective investigation would begin by removing evidence from a crime scene and examining it off-site.

Besides the removal and destruction of crime scene evidence, our government failed to follow NFPA 921, the the National Fire Protection Association Council’s “Guide for Fire and Explosion Investigation.” While in the title it calls itself a “guide,” it has been accepted by some courts as a standard in the fire prevention community. Since the 9/11 tragedy was the first, second, and third time in history that steel structures were destroyed by fire, one would think that a lot of information about the safer design of steel buildings could be gained from a thorough investigation of the collapses. Our government was either completely ignorant of the information that could have been gained that could have come from the tragedy, or had some other motive.

No matter who was behind the attacks, our government really screwed up in many ways. It is widely accepted that those who destroy evidence at a crime scene have something to hide, and logic would dictate the same. Any additional thoughts on this are appreciated.