Since 1989, the director of NIST has been a Schedule-C Presidential appointee and is confirmed by the United States Senate, and since that year the average tenure of NIST directors has fallen from 11 years to 2 years in duration.(Wikipedia)

The investigation was officially announced on Aug. 21, 2002. When the NCST Act was passed in October of that year, it required that the WTC investigation be conducted under its authorities. The draft report on the collapses of WTC 1 and WTC 2 was released for public comment on June 23, 2005; the final report was issued on Oct. 26, 2005.
FAQs - NIST WTC Towers Investigation

It's not an independent body, but directed by the POTUS of the day, at that time GW Bush.

After Bush put NIST under the authority of NCST Act, it ceased to act independently of the government.


What does the National Construction Safety Team (NCST) Act do?

The act, signed into law on Oct. 1, 2002, by President Bush, authorizes the National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NIST) to establish teams to investigate building failures. These authorities are modeled
after those of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) for investigating transportation accidents.

NIST is a non-regulatory agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
What was the previous authority under which NIST conducted structural failure investigations?
The legislative authority under which NIST conducted structural investigations prior to the NCST is
found in 15 U.S. Code Sec. 281a - Structural Failures.

This law states that “NIST, on its own initiative but only after consultation with local authorities, may initiate and conduct investigations to determine the causes of structural failures in structures that are used or occupied by the general public. No part of any report resulting from such investigation shall be admitted as evidence or used in any suit or action for damages arising out of any matter mentioned in such report.”

NIST also is a technical support agency within the Federal Response Framework as well as the National
Disaster Recovery Framework that outline how the federal government will responds to major disaster
declarations under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief And Emergency Assistance Act.

What was NIST’s prior role in the investigation of structural failure?
Prior to the enactment of the NCST, NIST’s role in the investigation of structural failures typically included:
establishing probable technical cause(s) of the high-magnitude consequences in the context of current
practice and codes and standards;

identifying issues and making safety recommendations for existing or new facilities through
improvements to codes, standards, and practices;

producing the technical basis for needed changes or improvements to practice or standards and codes
that will enhance public safety and health and homeland security; and,

preparing technically sound, archival, publicly available documents as references for future investigations or responsive actions.

A non-regulatory agency, NIST did not consider findings of fault, responsibility, or negligence. NIST’s
new authorities do not change that approach


This explains NIST's refusal to investigate the possibility of explosives or thermite used in the WTC demolition

AS a result, NIST also ignored and covered over the disclosure that several floors below the impact zone had been removed along with much of the internal fittings in all the other redundant unoccupied areas immediately below the impact zone prior to 9/11.


Shyam Sunder,NIST fire and research lab director, came up with all the b*llsh*t explanations of how the WTC buildings collapsed.

Exposed as a fraud,




Here's the fraud explaining his cooky cutter theory.



Another one of his hairbrained explanations, how the exterior beams of WTC1 and 2 snapped off in a straight line, an impossibility as the pillars were made of interlocking steel plates set in a zig-zag pattern.

That line of breaks look as though they've been deliberately cut by charges, not by stress from overheated steel floor joists.






Here's the fraud attempting to explain the WTC demolitions.