by Lionel Bascom — June 25th, 2007 — 1 comment
A blog called News Inferno.com revives the erroneous statements my by former EPA commissioner about the safety of air and the environment in lower Manhattan after 9/11.
I won’t defend former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman for issuing numerous statements assuring New Yorkers that the air in Lower Manhattan was safe. Since then, several studies have found those claims to be false.
Far from safe, the World Trade Center dust has been found to contain high levels of pulverized glass, cement and toxins such as asbestos. In the years since 9/11, thousands of rescue workers who spent weeks working at Ground Zero with little or no protective gear have reported unusually high incidences of respiratory illnesses. Some researchers fear that the extent of 9/11- related illness will not be known for years.
The GAO report was made public at a Senate subcommittee hearing last Wednesday. The hearing is expected to continue today, with former-EPA head Christine Todd Whitman scheduled to testify. It will be the first time in six years that Whitman has testified under oath about her agency’s response to the World Trade Center attacks.
I will say this though, Whitman was never just the mouth-piece of the administration. That is why she and Colon Power resigned. Each stepped into the breach to defend an administration that has lied, yes I said it, lied, repeatedly, and they had to leave. Each left with the shame of anyone duped into going along. Whitman, like Power, is a politician with immense integrity. This mistake about 9/11 has come back to haunt her but she already knows it was a very big mistake, joining an administration of liars, I mean.
And, this problem is bigger than Whitman or Power. It involves impeachment of liars who are killing out soldiers with their lying, cheating ways.
Can I get a witness, a Congressional witness, at impeachment hearings because I’ve had just about enough of this nonsense. It is criminal. We lock petty criminals like Paris Hilton up. I think we should be casting for bigger fish because there is too much at stake.
10:40 PM in Uncategorized, World Trade Center, Ground Zero, Related Stories, Freedom Tower News
Your renaming of our former Secretary of State is quite interesting. Yes, I have to agree with your intense disgust. Our country now enters a pivotal era whereby we citizenry need to bravely own our power. Each individual needs to look into his/her heart and make that decision to actively participate in this government.
Early in the 19th century, Alexis de Tocqueville penned these prophetic words, “All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.”
Jeanne · June 26th, 2007 at 10:21 pm