William Rodriguez Vindicated by Newly Released 9/11 Commission Notes

For several years now, self-styled "debunkers" have been claiming that William Rodriguez has been lying about the testimony he gave to the 9/11 Commission in 2004. For example, on Mark Roberts' website, Roberts mocks Rodriguez;

"January, 2009: As promised, many of the 9/11 Commission investigation records have been made public. There is a wealth of material online, with more to come. I'm sure William Rodriguez will want to get the copies of the notes made by two investigators who interviewed him, to prove his claim that his story hasn't changed from the start and that the Commission attempted to cover it up. (Don't hold your breath for Rodriguez to publish those notes.)"

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/reprehensor/911/roberts-lies.jpg

Not only have Mr. Rodriguez's basic claims remained unchanged, the cover-up continues; his actual testimony remains "restricted". One can only imagine why that would be. The wiser JREFers who have been holding their collective breath may now exhale, as Mr. Rodriguez has supplied us with copies of the 9/11 Commission Investigator notes in PDF form, which read in part;

"Rodriguez said on September 11, 2001 he reported late to work which was unusual for him. He said he was in the B1 sublevel ABM office speaking to Anthony Saltamachia when the plane struck the North Tower (WTC 1). He immediately thought the explosion was caused by a generator. Shortly after the first explosion a second explosion rocked the building and caused the office's false ceiling to collapse. Following these explosions Felipe David, who was severely burned, ran into the office. Rodriguez said there was a third explosion and he believed then the explosions were caused by an earthquake."

Clearly, Rodriguez was indeed talking about "explosions" from the very start.

Download investigator notes here:

(2/23/2009 - Clarification: these are two separate sets of notes by two separate investigators.)

PDF 1.

PDF 2.

Excellent post!

Rodriguez, a true hero, has a tenacious resolve which underscores his courage. Our children's children will build statues honoring this type of heroism.

Agreed !

Adversity is the test of strong men. Willie you're a man of integrity, courage, and character. Thank you for your honesty, and all your effort in our quest for the truth. Your unselfish efforts, and heroism in helping save hundreds of people in the world trade center leaves without question your honesty.
Why has the major media ignored this man?...... The only logical reason is.
BECAUSE THE OFFICIAL STORY IS A LIE !

The anti-truthers...

Don't seem to agree with you. Come to think of it. Not only are they anti-truthers, they're anti-compassion, anti-logic, anti-sincerity, anti-honor, anti-morality, anti-accountability, anti-justice, and a few others I can't think of at the moment.


Do these people deserve to know how and why their loved ones were murdered? Do we deserve to know how and why 9/11 happened?

This confirms that he

This confirms that he described the first explosion as coming from the sub levels (where the generator was located) followed shortly by a second explosion that "rocked the building" and "caused the office's false ceiling to collapse" - more consistent with a plane striking the building.

"Testimony is still restricted" Hmm...

Reprehensor

Question: Rep, can you elaborate as to what part or manner William's testimony has been restricted?

Thanks. Important post.

William Rodriguez: 9/11 Hero - 50:40 - Jul 8, 2006

William Rodriguez Website: http://www.william911.com/

William @ Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rodriguez

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4380137365762802294&ei=rIahSYTRI...

William Rodriguez at the Lakewood Theater Dallas
Reprehensor spoke at length with William at the Dallas event

Interview on KLIF Neocon Radio from the Lakewood Lobby

So cool! Rodriguez in Dallas, Texas

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I won't go as far as Kevin Barrett

and call for anyone's violent death, but...

...I'd love to see the day that the key JREFers, Mark Roberts especially, are IN JAIL FOR TREASON, right alongside Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rove.

Show "Disagree" by Jill

It is impossible to torture the truth out of anyone

Jill:
It is impossible to torture the truth out of anyone. Here's why: You have to make the determination in advance - and without proof - that the person you are torturing is guilty of some horrible crime that merits torture. How do you make such a determination?

If you already have the proof - then you don't need to torture anyone to get it. If you don't have the proof but torture someone on a "hunch" or "fishing expedition" based on a belief without proof - then you have entered a nightmare realm.

Unfortunately some of our fellow humans have entered this nightmare realm. You do not want to go there. Neither do the readers of this website, which is why you have gotten all those minuses.

It is understandable to have fantasies based on anger. It is good that you have expressed these fantasies on this website - because now the whole world can see (by all those minuses and no supporting replies) that those of us who seek the truth reject violence, reject torture and reject renditions.

I suggest that you might want to talk to a health professional or a clergy person or to a trusted friend and talk out all this anger. Anger is normal. But expressing a wish for it on a public website
goes way, way over the line.

Vital detail 'restricted'

One fact which has evidently been 'restricted' is that William Rodriguez specifically distinguishes between the first, close explosion and the later, more distant impact from the plane. You can hear him make this distinction in the interview he gave to BBC Radio Bristol:

http://www.911truthbristol.com/BBC%20Bristol%202006-Dec-04%20William%20R...

(The relevant part starts at 1 minute 20 seconds in.)

Crucial little details like this one must be preserved and made more widely known.

Giulani's corroboration of unexplained molten material

This is really a corollary unexplained event to Willie Rodriguez's subbasement explosions but I wanted to document it here before too much time passes since the statement was made by Giulani. I recently (2/9/09) attended a motivational seminar in Honolulu (www.getmotivated.com) which had Rudy Giulani. First, he once again repeated the inaccuracy that no one had ever thought of planes used as missiles to attack buildings before so that is why they had no emergency plan to deal with that unprecedented event. Perhaps more importantly, he described towards the end of his speech about Bush's 9/14/2001 visit to Ground Zero and how Bush overstayed to show his compassion and leadership despite Secret Service concerns for his safety. In describing the danger, Guilani specifically referenced 2000 degree temperatures underground and that no one knew where the molten material would pop up again through the ground (or very closely stated words to that effect). This was stated in front of a capacity crowd at Blaisdell Arena and recorded but the film is for internal company use only and therefore ostensibly unavailable. The point is this: The 9/11 Commission Report and the NIST report not only avoid any explanation of the explosions heard by many including Rodriguez, they also failed to mention how or why those 2000 degree temperatures could occur. Of course, Guilani offered no explanation of the high temperature molten material either but it is an important admission since some truth deniers claim otherwise given the melting point of steel and the much lower max burning temperature of jet fuel or office fires.

Interesting...

It's a shame no recording is available. Although there's plenty of eyewitness and other evidence of the extreme, long-lived temperatures, it's more powerful when it comes from a 9/11 actor like Giulani.

Giuliani's CV:

He was responsible, despite strong advice against it, for siting the $61 million emergency-command center in WTC 7. It took 4 and a half years to build but was evacuated before mysteriously imploding on the day it was first needed.

He was responsible for the FDNY's faulty radios,

He told the 9/11 Commission that the 121 firefighters who died in the north tower chose to ignore evacuation orders out of a sense of duty, when, in fact, they never received the orders.

Again, despite strong opposition, he was responsible for hastily removing and destroying forensic evidence at Ground Zero.

Although proactive in the rapid clean-up, he condemed the health and lives of those charged with the task. On September 28 he announced "the air is safe and acceptable," and by the end of October, only 29 percent of the workers at the site were wearing respirators.

He "was told that the World Trade Center was going to collapse", but he thought it would collapse "the way buildings usually collapse, which is in stages... The way number 7 came down... over a period of time."

He was recorded by CBS "holding up what he says is one of the flight recorder boxes recovered from the debris around the WTC" but due to "a technical problem with the video tape" it was not shown and the official story maintains no flight recorders were found at the WTC.

During the London Tube bombings he was ensconced with Benjamin Netanyahu in the Great Eastern Hotel "a half block from the Liverpool Street Station in Central London, when he heard an explosion, according to his spokeswoman Sunny Mindel..."
"It was... very eerie to be right there again when one of these attacks takes place... Why was I so close both times? ... Obviously there was no connection, but only God can answer questions like that, I guess."

And of course he made millions trading on his 9/11 "expertise".

Yes, Sir Rudy gets around

Here's the CBS News clip:

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/black-box/

and some 7/7 strangeness:

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/memory-holes-in-the-floor/

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Rodriguez testimony confirmed by supervisor

According to the 9/11 commission notes....
"Rodriguez said on September 11, 2001 he reported late to work which was unusual for him. He said he was in the B1 sublevel ABM office speaking to Anthony Saltamachia when the plane struck the North Tower(wtc 1). He immediately thought the explosion was caused by a generator. Shortly after the first explosion a second explosion rocked the building and caused the office's false ceiling to collapse. Following these explosions Felipe David, who was severely burned, ran into the office. Rodriguez said there was a third explosion and he believed then the explosions were caused by an earthquake."
http://www.911podcasts.com/files/documents/Rodriguez.pdf

According to this, Anthony Saltamachia would be in a position to either confirm or deny what Willie has to say. So, what is it? Does he also back up what Willie has to say? Yes he does, watch him say it himself here.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzpaZE5XSfg

Seismic Recordings Confirm Rodriquez Testimony, too

These released notes then also confirm, and give greater credibility to Don Meserlian and the Citizens Campaign For 9-11 Truth, which claims in a Citizens Request for the FBI to Review 9-11 with details in a Proclamation with seismographic evidence of 'detected explosions in the basements of WTC 1 & 2 (the Twin Towers) before the planes struck them; these seismographs also depict underground explosions prior to the collapse of WTC Building 7 that was not struck by an airplane.'

Richard Gage, who participates with a group of 9/11 truth leaders. which has included William Rodriguez, Don Meserlian, Les Jamieson, Tom Tvedten, Sander Hicks, and others, analyzed the sources and information, and signed the
PROCLAMATION. With that reference, I signed the proclamation, too.

Please note how this fits it with the NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative to give authority to an investigation and report by independent Commissioners standing up to the lies.

jonathan

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Brian Good?

Who is Brian Good? He is spaming the world with accusations Willy is a fake!

Any info any one?

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I have the same damn

I have the same damn question. He thinks I'm one from his audience. From what I've learned he may live in San Francisco area, he belongs to an on-line group out there. He is trying to prove by the 911 commission and the altered interview done on the day of 911 that Willie never said there was an explosion.

He is reading here. This post about Willie is why he has stepped up his attack. Who knows him? Anybody?

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I don't understand...

...why "no-planers" etc... can't just drop these theories and simply unite under the fact that 9/11 was a black operation.

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The FDNY Reports

Contain much more information on the ground level / basement / elevator explosion(s):

FDNY Quotes

Transcriptions?

This is a partial transcription of the first file.... anyone want to take a shot at the second handwritten pdf?

from: http://www.911podcasts.com/files/documents/Rodriguez.pdf

Rodriguez said on September 11, 2001 he reported late to work which was unusual for him. He said he was in the B1 sublevel ABC office speaking to Anthony Saltamachia when the plane struck the North Tower (WTC1). He immediately thought the explosion was caused by a generator. Shortly after the first explosion a second explosion rocked the building and caused the office's false ceiling to collapse. Following these explosions Felipe David, who was severely burned, ran into the office. Rodruguez said there was a third explosion and he believed then the explosions were caused by an earthquake.

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Rodriguez said he went down to the B1 level to ensure everyone was out of the building. Water from the sprinkler system was flowing into the sublevels. He found two men trapped in an elevator stuck between the B2 and B3 levels. The men in the elevator were hip deep in water. Rodriguez said he found a nearby ladder and was able to help the men to evacuate.

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After leading these men out of the area, Rodriguez said he went to the lobby near the express elevators and found a group of firemen who were looking to ascend. Rodriguez said he had assigned keys for all the stairwells. Since the elevators were not working he said he began to lead the firemen up the A stairwell. He indicated as they climbed he opened the stairwell doors to told anyone on the floors to leave. He indicated there were a number of people already in the stairwells. He said he and the firemen found varying smoke conditions on the floors. He said the conditions ranged from no smoke to heavy smoke. Some floors also had considerable water from the sprinkler system and other floors were dry.

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Additionally, he said he heard on a radio while he was on the 39th floor, that "we lost the 65th to the 44th." Rodriguez believed this transmission referred to an internal collapse of floors.

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According to Rodriguez the A and C stariwells connected on floors 42, 48, 76 and 82, while stairway B was self contained. He said there was no roof access except with card access and a key.

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It was also Rodriguez opinion that the security of the stairwells was lax. He said he often saw people in the stairwells having sex, smoking and doing drugs.

Do I stand corrected?

"Rodriguez said on September 11, 2001 he reported late to work which was unusual for him. He said he was in the B1 sublevel ABM office speaking to Anthony Saltamachia when the plane struck the North Tower (WTC 1). He immediately thought the explosion was caused by a generator. Shortly after the first explosion a second explosion rocked the building and caused the office's false ceiling to collapse. Following these explosions Felipe David, who was severely burned, ran into the office. Rodriguez said there was a third explosion and he believed then the explosions were caused by an earthquake."

...I thought (maybe erroneously) that the first explosion William reported hearing and feeling was from the sublevel below the one where he was standing with Mr. Saltamachia and that this explosion (which I thought I remember him saying had lifted them off of their feet) was FOLLOWED by the impact of the plane above. First the explosion below...THEN the one above...which underscored the fact that bombs had been used and resulted in the media blackout of his testimony. Am I wrong about that?

Justice, Then Peace...
D.S.

That's how I've understood his testimony

It is possible that the Commission changed the order of the events, in an attempt to imply that the first explosion, which Rodriguez thought was caused by a generator (apparently below), resulted from the plane striking above and that the second explosion was some sort of an after-effect of the plane crash.

Cf. the way the BBC muddled Barry Jenning's timeline concerning the explosion in WTC 7 in their "The Third Tower".

My WTC 7 page: http://11syyskuu.blogspot.com/2006/02/destruction-of-wtc-7.html