Whitman on hot seat over 9/11 aftermath

Rufus_1611 · Jun 26, 2007

Whitman on hot seat over 9/11 aftermath

Ex-EPA chief Christie Whitman was bombarded by boos and a host of accusations Monday at a hearing into her assurances that it had been safe to breathe the air around the fallen World Trade Center.

The confrontation between the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency and her critics grew heated at times. Some members of the audience shouted in anger, only to be gaveled down by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., who chaired the hearing.

For three hours Whitman faced charges from Nadler and others that the Environmental Protection Agency's public statements after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks gave people a false sense of safety.

Whitman maintained the government warned those working on the toxic debris pile to use respirators, while elsewhere in lower Manhattan the air was safe to the general public.
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A study of more than 20,000 people by Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York concluded that, since the attacks, 70 percent of ground zero workers have suffered some sort of respiratory illness. A separate study released last month found that rescue workers and firefighters contracted sarcoidosis, a serious lung-scarring disease, at a rate more than five times as high as in the years before the attacks.

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Pastor Larry · Jun 26, 2007

Playing politics is all this is.

TomVols · Jun 26, 2007

That, and anger displacement. We can't dig up the bodies of the terrorists who did this and make them pay anymore. And thanks to the PC crowd, we can't detain present ones in Gitmo. But we can scream at the politicians who may or may not be guilty of coverups, or who just may or may not have been going on the best information at the time.

2 Timothy2:1-4 · Jun 26, 2007

Actually this is about the 08 election. They want to put anyone connected to the present administration in the worst possible light to have ammo on the campaign trail. It is the hight of immaturity really.

npc · Jun 26, 2007

TomVols said:

And thanks to the PC crowd, we can't detain present ones in Gitmo.
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Is it really so difficult to grasp the arguments of "the PC crowd"? I'd be happy to hold terrorists in Guantanamo. After a conviction.

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