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To: stockman_scott who wrote (221103)	2/26/2007 1:46:20 AM
From: Proud Deplorable	Respond to of 281500

Building 7's Exclusive Tenants Unlike rest of WTC, which came under private control in July 2001, WTC 7 was privately owned since its construction in 1985. Building 7's short list of tenants consisted entirely of government and financial institutions. Financial institutions Salomon Smith Barney (SSB) Standard Chartered Bank Federal Home Loan Bank of New York First State Management Group TT Hartford Insurance Group American Express Bank International National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Government agencies Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Department of Defense (DOD) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Office of Emergency Management (OEM) US Secret Service Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) The collapse of Building 7 destroyed thousands of SEC casefiles of ongoing investigations into companies such as WorldCom. Giuliani's Command Center 23rd floor of building was a bunker housing Giuliani's Emergency Command Center. It had: bullet- and bomb-resistant windows an independent, secure air and water supply the ability to withstand winds of 160 MPH an unubstructed view of entire height of both towers Command center was built in 1998, in response to 1993 bombing. It was designed to respond to terrorist attack. Yet on 9/11/01 it was supposedly abandoned. Giuliani did not go to Building 7 that morning. Instead, he went to makeshift headquarters on Barkley St. He told ABC's Peter Jennings on 9/11/01 he received advance notice of the impending collapses: We were operating out of [the makeshift headquarters] when we were told that the World Trade Center was gonna collapse, and it did collapse before we could get out of the building. Unfortunately the nearly 400 firefighters who were killed by the unexpected collapses did not have the benefit of this knowledge.