Freedom Tower Plans In New York Trash Can By Homeless Man

The New York Post has an exclusive report on a homeless man who found the "confidential" blueprints for the Freedom Tower in a New York dumpster!

It's a good thing Osama wasn't walking through SoHo yesterday morning.

Two sets of confidential blueprints for the planned Freedom Tower, which is set to rise at Ground Zero, were carelessly dumped in a city garbage can on the corner of West Houston and Sullivan streets, The Post has learned.

Experts said the detailed, floor-by-floor schematics contain enough detail for terrorists to plot a devastating attack.

Below is a photo of the blueprints:

Below is a drawing of the planned Freedom Tower:

Comments

[Nyland8]

03:42 AM on 04/20/2008

So what? With a couple of phone calls, I could have a set of plans by the end of the week. And I certainly wouldn't need a "Q" clearance to get them.

Any qualified bidder can obtain plans by just asking for them. They, in turn, would make copies for any subcontractor they were looking for a bid from. And after dozens of copies of plans are "out there" and hundreds of estimators, contractors, engineers and subs have seen them, any one of them or group of them can decide not to bid and "-*PFFFFT*-" into the can it goes. There's no shredding protocol.

Of all the legitimate terrorist targets that are still exposed this long after the 9/11 Commission findings, this "discovery" of the New York Post - a Rupert Murdoch rag - should be a one paragraph back page filler. We're not even capable of protecting the hundreds of obvious targets that would be devastating to our population centers. Why should we concern ourselves with meaningless symbols that haven't even been built yet?

The fact that this is even a "story" says a lot about the American people's naivete .

It's no wonder Bush is still in power.

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[avicenna]

03:29 AM on 04/20/2008

Just out of curiosity - when were the plans drafted? Any date? January 2001? Are they supplementary material to Project of a New America?

[ljsfolly]

05:57 PM on 04/19/2008

Confidential? what the hell is that? When you can easily grab plans for buildings that can be attacked on the internet and in the citys files along with any contractor who works on it then are we more safe from terroists? We take off our shoes at airports and they just discovered airplanes never being checked for cracks that might take the planes down. We go thorugh the scanners over an over but who watches the bulkhead for cargo? How about them ports and trains that carry really bad stuff that kills people? No one has made us safer and every time I take off my shoes I think about how little the effort matters as who will protect us when the government is checking our shoes and our minature bottles of toiletries. Oh well lots of money went to homeland security and when anyone really knows what is the reality of the money vs reality let me know. I could use the money to save my house and live better without health care bill mounting as I write.

[CaptainHowdy]

01:38 PM on 04/19/2008

What difference does it make? They are NEVER going to build that tower anyway.

[ezrider]

10:22 AM on 04/19/2008

I really feel for this homeless guy,
You know the Bush machine is going to make an example out of him.

[jubo]

03:36 AM on 04/19/2008

Freedom? Wow, that was a while ago...

[NooYawkGurrl]

02:03 AM on 04/19/2008

The symbolic irony of this event is not entirely lost on me.

[JerseyBob]

09:14 PM on 04/18/2008

There is no surprise here!

There could be hundreds of copies of the building plans and they would be provided to contractors, local, state, and federal authorities. Copies will be left unguarded at various contractor and governmental sites. Thousands of people will need to access building plans for varous legitimate reasons and probably will not have appropriate clearances if indeed the bldg. plans are considered highly classifed.

It will be easy to determine much about the methods of construction by observing construction from the street and adjacent buildings. There are so many ways. You simply cannot compartmentalize the knowledge needed to build these structures because of the relationships among all involved. This is a civilian effort and the cat will never get out of the bag because the cat will never go in it. Two sets were dumped in the garbage right? Think about it.

[ann1]

09:00 PM on 04/18/2008

If that don't beat all!

[wmbear]

07:37 PM on 04/18/2008

NEXT GOES THE BUSH/CHENEY WAR CRIME FAMILY...

Into the Dumpster of history....

[wmbear]

07:32 PM on 04/18/2008

IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, SYMBOLIC....

Thanks to George W. Bush, our constitutional freedoms are, effectively, being tossed in the garbage can. Frankly, I think someone in on the planning of the Tower was making a Statement....

[mollysgran]

07:28 PM on 04/18/2008

A few years ago I read a very interesting book by Peter Lance - "1000 Years For Revenge" . It told of events and people connected to the first bombing of the WTC, and gave a timeline of events and people connected to 9/11.

In the very early '90's someone threw out some old files, including the blueprints to the World Trade Center. Those were picked up by an Egyptian employee at the WTC who was later discovered to be close to the Blind Sheikh who is in prison for masterminding the first Trade Center bombing.

Is this deja-vue all over again?

[CaptainHowdy]

01:40 PM on 04/19/2008

Yeah, having those plans helped them out so much.

LOL!

[FreedomCorpse]

07:20 PM on 04/18/2008

I don't think they should be able to build anything there until they retrieve the steel from the original towers back from China. The evidence from the original crime scene should be thoroughly examined by independent experts before some 'freedom tower' atrocity is put up.

[LeftRight]

03:56 PM on 04/19/2008

As opposed to what they did BEFORE they scrapped the steel?? They investigated the whole thing, and came up with what seems to be a very accurate explanation of the causes of the collapses!

[23000Days]

05:08 PM on 04/19/2008

you're confusing accurate with plausible.....

[Irons]

06:21 PM on 04/18/2008

Breaking, homeless man will be tortured. Are we sure this "homeless" guy "found" these plans for our Freedom Tower? Maybe he stole them and is now trying to cash in.

[ornery]

06:49 PM on 04/18/2008

Right. With a little extraordinary rendition he'll soon be singing a different tune.

He's AQ all right.

I think I saw him under my bed last night.

Quick, quick: what color is your Terror Alert???

[Irons]

01:28 AM on 04/19/2008

Just show this guy a wet towel and he'll be singing like bird.

[Irons]

06:18 PM on 04/18/2008

Heckuva job.

[jubo]

03:38 AM on 04/19/2008

'Heckuva job', Homie...