Donald Rumsfeld and the Demolition of WTC 7

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was asked about World Trade Center Building 7 (WTC 7), he <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKbSMD0ZGY4">claimed that he had never heard of it</a>. This was despite the unprecedented destruction of that 47-story building and its relationship to the events of 9/11 that shaped Rumsfeld’s career. Although not hit by a plane, WTC 7 experienced free fall into its own footprint on the afternoon of 9/11—through the path of what should have been the most resistance. The government agency charged with investigating the building’s destruction ultimately admitted that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVCDpL4Ax7I">it had been in free fall</a> during a portion of its descent. That fact makes explosive demolition the only logical explanation. Considering how WTC 7 might have been demolished leads to some interesting facts about Rumsfeld and his associates.</span><div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>The one major tenant of WTC 7 was Salomon Smith Barney (SSB), the company that occupied <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tenants_in_Seven_World_Trade_Center">37 of the 47 floors</a> in WTC 7. A little discussed fact is that Rumsfeld was the chairman of the SSB advisory board and Dick Cheney was a board member as well. Rumsfeld had served as chairman of the SSB advisory board since its inception in 1999. According to the financial disclosures he made in his nomination process, during the same period Rumsfeld had also been a paid consultant to the Director of Central Intelligence, George Tenet. Rumsfeld and Cheney had to resign from their CIA and SSB positions in 2001 when they were confirmed as members of George W. Bush’s cabinet.<br><br><a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/rumsfeld_reuters_3281_605.jpg"><img src="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/rumsfeld_reuters_3281_605-300x162.jpg"></a></span></div></div>

Donald Rumsfeld and the Demolition of WTC 7

When former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was asked about World Trade Center Building 7 (WTC 7), he claimed that he had never heard ...

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