In a letter addressed to leaders of the House Oversight Committee and the recently formed Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, a group of 9/11 family members and leading 9/11 advocates, including former US Congressman Curt Weldon, has called upon the task force to push for the release of computer modeling files related to the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 that have been withheld from public disclosure by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) since 2009.
The group argues that NIST’s withholding of these files on the grounds that they might jeopardize public safety “has no credible basis” and has “harmed public trust by preventing independent experts from fully scrutinizing the analysis performed by NIST.” The letter states, “Without such scrutiny, the public cannot be confident that the official narrative of Building 7’s collapse is accurate and reliable.”
The Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets was established last month for the purpose of providing congressional oversight on the declassification of government files related to various major historical events, including 9/11, the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and MLK, and the origins of Covid-19. The task force appears to also have an investigative function, with the first hearing, scheduled for March 26, set to examine the JFK assassination.
The letter to the task force also mentions the ongoing effort by a similar coalition of groups, spearheaded by Congressman Weldon, to approach the Trump administration for the establishment of a “Presidential Commission on 9/11.”
Given the task force’s goal of promoting transparency, the signatories of the letter have every expectation that the task force will join in urging NIST to finally release its Building 7 computer modeling files — and that this may be just the first step in the task force’s review of the World Trade Center evidence.
We at IC911 are grateful to our fellow signatories for joining this initiative. They include Congressman Curt Weldon; 9/11 family members Matt Campbell, Drew DePalma, Bob and Helen McIlvaine, and Kacee Papa; and leading advocates Roland Angle, PE, of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Raul Angulo of the Protecting All Protectors Alliance, David Chandler of Scientists for 9/11 Truth, and Richard Gage, AIA, of RichardGage911.
