The notion that there would be a formalized contract that could be later used against a company contracted for the demolition of the Trade Center complex, is of course, absurd.

There would be no such contract. No real paper trail.

But that doesn't mean a contract for services did not exist.

Take for instance the Blackwater assasignation contract work they did for the State department and the CIA. The only paperwork that I have heard of, is a lump sum payment agreement for future services rendered, and then nothing else after that that could be used as evidence.

Other open end contracts litter Iraq and Afghanistan to this day.

CACI and Triple Canopy have this arrangement with reguard to the privatized torture programs and Blackwater has other contracts that are similar that deal with the secret rendition programs in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Caspian Sea Basin area.

I am absolutely sure that this was a contract job. First of all these people "privatize" everything. Second, the absolutely LAST THING they wanted was to have half a building sitting there and all kinds of reports about additional explosive devices being found, like what happened at the Murrah building.

And by the way, as Juan points out, Turner does contract out their explosive demolition work... to CDI. And of course, the man they brought in to run the "clean up" a day after 9/11 was none other than the owner of CDI. The same man who admitted that while the buildings were burning, he contacted several business associates in Lower Manhattan and warned them that the buildings were going to "come down". He is on record admitting he did that.

To me there is no question that they would want this thing to go flawlessly, and in order to do that, they would have subbed it out to the leaders in the field of controlled demolition.

Your idea that they would have used a "dream team" to run the demolition process is possible. But for all my reading on the subject of this industry, I think it is highly unlikely for this reason; in the explosive demolition industry, the first, last, and middle priority... is control.

These guys control everything. They have to or they die. Or they get sued and lose the business. Or they drop the building on another building and end up in jail.

Control is everything. That is one of the main reasons I know for a fact that "nanothermite" or "super thermite" or any other such distraction WASN'T used. There is no control factor on untested explosives (even the Jones report can't fully claim that the stuff could blow up anything... much less the floor systems in the Towers) and therefore I know for a fact, these guys would NEVER have used it as the primary high explosive.

These guys don't like new faces, and they don't trust the job to be done exactly the way it needed to be done by people they know don't have the experience their own guys have.

So I think it is highly unlikely that a "dream team" would have been assembled for this. Though it is possible, perhaps.

As to the motivation question... money is a powerful motivation. But it isn't the only one. Ideologically speaking, this event promised to change the world. To remake it in the "Milton Friedman Free-Market" mold. So, perhaps that factored in as well.

But moreso than even that... the money is just the beggining. The access and influence is also part of it. Plus, think of it this way; whomever they approached for this part and the various other aspects that had to be ironed out, that person had to know that just being ASKED to do this put their lives at risk.

Were they to have refused, and then the Towers "fell down", what would that person's life be worth?

You have that possible outcome on one side, then you have a "carpet of gold" on the other... PLUS the knowlege that your kids and grandkids will forever be in the "inner circle"... they will be accepted at any college they choose. They will get great jobs and live a "green zone" lifestyle...

or...

not much of a choice really when you look at it that way. But certainly, you are correct... it's not just about the money.

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