Bush Administration Official on the WTC

Wizbang has an interesting blog entry here. Seems the Dept. of Labor Chief Economist is stating that, well read it yourself. (The quote is from the UPI report.)

A former Bush team member during his first administration is now voicing serious doubts about the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9-11. Former chief economist for the Department of Labor during President George W. Bush's first term Morgan Reynolds comments that the official story about the collapse of the WTC is "bogus" and that it is more likely that a controlled demolition destroyed the Twin Towers and adjacent Building No. 7.

Reynolds, who also served as director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas and is now professor emeritus at Texas A&M University said, "If demolition destroyed three steel skyscrapers at the World Trade Center on 9/11, then the case for an 'inside job' and a government attack on America would be compelling."

Reynolds commented from his Texas A&M office, "It is hard to exaggerate the importance of a scientific debate over the cause of the collapse of the twin towers and building 7. If the official wisdom on the collapses is wrong, as I believe it is, then policy based on such erroneous engineering analysis is not likely to be correct either. The government's collapse theory is highly vulnerable on its own terms. Only professional demolition appears to account for the full range of facts associated with the collapse of the three buildings."

Now I don't want to cast aspersions, but, when did he become a structural engineer? I thought he was an economist.

Read Wizbang and the comments. Some of the comments are hilarious.
(I personally love the one on Reynold's Wrap.)

UPDATE:
Wonder what is happening at the Democratic Underground on this.

UPDATE2:
Found Reynold's actual commentary on the topic here. I'm not a structural engineer, but I really think that he has substantially over simplified what occurred.