“The structural damage from the planes and the explosive ignition of jet fuel in themselves were not enough to bring down the towers. Fire Engineering has good reason to believe that the ‘official investigation’ blessed by FEMA… is a half-baked farce that may already have been commandeered by political forces whose primary interests, to put it mildly, lie far afield of full disclosure. Except for the marginal benefit obtained from a three-day, visual walk-through of evidence sites conducted by ASCE investigation committee members — described by one close source as a ‘tourist trip’ — no one's checking the evidence for anything”
(Fire Engineering Editor in Chief Bill Manning, Burning Questions...Need Answers, Fire Engineering, January 4, 2002.)