Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

There is drama unfolding in the world of 9/11 truth. The Architects and Engineers submitted a request to NIST to retract their claim that Building 7 collapsed due to fires, specifically, the burning of office furnishings. AE911truth specifically cited the work by Dr. Leroy Hulsey at the University of Alaska Fairbanks which scientifically proved that the tower fell not due to fires, but due to the simultaneous failure of all its columns.  

So, they submitted this request, which included 100 pages of scientific argument and 5 exhibits, and NIST, by law, had 120 days to respond to it. It meant the deadline was August 13. But, they did not respond by August 13, except to say that they're still working on it.

So, what is going to happen next? AE911truth has said they will take legal action if they don't get a response, or if drags on too long. If they do get a response, and I presume they will at some point, then AE911truth will have the right to contest it if they don't find it satisfactory. And that would take the dispute to a different entity within the Department of Commerce, of which NIST is part. So, it would involve different scientists, not NIST's scientists, looking at the issue, rather like a scientific Court of Appeals.

So, what is NIST likely to say in their response? I'll make a prediction. I predict that they are going to retract their claim that the burning of furniture and computers caused the building to collapse, as ridiculous as it is.  But then, they are going to say that it's just a mystery; that they don't know why the building collapsed; that they don't have an official explanation. But, they will deny that there was any human influence to help the building collapse. So, they will say that it was a spontaneous collapse of unknown cause. 

And being unsatisfied with that, AE911truth will file their appeal with the Department of Commerce. And I won't predict what they are going to say. 

But, in the words of the vernacular, the shit is about to hit the fan here. Of course, the Mainstream Media won't report on it, but the people's media (the Internet) will.  It's going to get spicy. 

https://www.ae911truth.org/news/703-nist-late-on-response-to-wtc-7-request-for-correction