Newly released Department of Justice documents show that investigators reviewing surveillance footage from the night of Jeffrey Epstein’s death observed an orange-colored shape moving up a staircase toward the isolated, locked tier where his cell was located at approximately 10:39 p.m. on Aug. 9, 2019.

That entry in an observation log of the video from the Metropolitan Correctional Center appears to suggest something previously unreported by authorities: “A flash of orange looks to be going up the L Tier stairs — could possibly be an inmate escorted up to that Tier.”

It also appears, according to an FBI memorandum, that reviews by investigators led to disparate conclusions by the FBI and those examining the same video from the Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General.

  • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
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    Alright since you brought it up. My stance is that jet fuel CAN’T melt steel beams but they sure as hell can weaken them. However my own logic prevents me from accepting a bottom starting pancake collapse when the heat is at the top. Wouldn’t that have been a top-down pancake at the very least?

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      IDK if you’rejoning, but jet fuel can 100% melt steel beams. That’s basic physics

      Jet engines themselves get to >3000F consistently, despite being actively cooled. More than enough to melt steel

      Kerosene combustion releases a fixed amount of energy per unit of fuel. You can get it to an arbitrarily high tenperature if you want

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      It didn’t start at the bottom, but once the section above started to move, weight+inertia would begin to cause failures all up and down the lower section, mostly at the top but certainly along other points, as all of them are now under more stress than they were ever designed to withstand.

      At those levels of force, welds, rivets, hell the beams themselves were no match; and the longer it went on the faster it got, and the weaker the lower structure became, in a run-away effect.

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      It collapsed at the point of impact where the steel weakened, then that crushed everything below it. The evidence is all over and has been for almost 25 years now. Just watch the videos.

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      Didn’t it start from the top down? It’s been 25 years but I watched it live and that’s what I remember seeing.

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        Who you’re going to believe? Some rando on lemmy or your lying eyes?

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          Well it has been a long time. I’d trust then more if I wasn’t relying on a long faded memory. Though admittedly a powerful one.

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      What about:

      The planes did the damage and they didn’t need to rig the towers with c4, but they ignored the plot when they learned about it a month before hand and only shot down the planes that were going to “important” places.