Uhm, so the lawyer threatens to take the 'technical narrative, graphics and DVD' to European engineers in Cambridge University and elsewhere unless NIST amends their report? And this would be embarrassing to NIST so they'd better do it or else?
Wouldn't it make more sense if the engineering dept of Cambridge University just produced their own FEA and publish the results? Nothing to stop them from doing this.
Furthermore, the problem facing AE911Truth is that they're not an impartial society of engineers, they're not a recognized professional body. They're a lobby group (Gerrycan and others remind us often) that wants 'a new investigation' into ALL the collapses, and features papers which allege that all the buildings were destroyed through controlled demolition.
Nowhere in this letter does the [...] lawyer mention that.
If the ASCE sent a letter officially, it would carry some weight. This letter doesn't do much, it'll probably get mentioned in a meeting of technical staff, and they'll roll their eyes and say 'yeah, the same people that believe their were nanothermite rockets flying out of the towers, and that paint chips are exotic high explosives'.
Perhaps if AE911Truth were not saddled with a clown like Richard Gage or David Chandler, who are infamous by now and practically foam at the mouth with their zeal, they might get taken seriously.
What they need is to get a respected engineering department of a major university to back up their claims, if they're even going to have a snowball's chance in hell of getting considered seriously. But they haven't managed to do that, despite raising over $1,000,000!
Geez, that 3rd party study confirming their nanothermite theory would come in real handy right now. Too bad they didn't prioritize 0.1% of their income to pay for one. Dang!
I guess their tactic of blaming NIST for everything gives them some street cred. But they've never come up with a coherent set of theories and evidence for a credible alternative hypothesis. That's the problem. It's not NIST, it's AE911Truth and its careless endorsement of crazy ideas that's the problem.