[mastequilla]

I was in the WTC a few months before the 9/11 attack and the security at the entrance points was very tight. To get to the elevators required not only producing a photo ID, but being signed in by someone holding a building pass. That would imply for the hijacker to get past security he would have had to have had a valid photo ID, and he would have had to have been signed in by someone who had access privaleges.

[petercooper]

Was Richard Ben-Veniste really at the WTC the week before 9-11 as he keeps saying, or was he b.s.'ing?

[NYCVirago]

I was in the WTC a few months before the 9/11 attack and the security at the entrance points was very tight. To get to the elevators required not only producing a photo ID, but being signed in by someone holding a building pass. That would imply for the hijacker to get past security he would have had to have had a valid photo ID, and he would have had to have been signed in by someone who had access privaleges.

Yep. I had to go to a doctor's office in the WTC in the fall of 2000. I had to not only show photo ID to the guards, but they also gave me a temporary photo ID/access pass for the day, and I was asked for it at several points.