Ex-EPA Chief Grilled Over 9/11 Response

[RamboLiberal]

Source: CBS News/AP

The woman who led the top U.S. environmental agency during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks confronted critics in Congress on Monday about her assurances that the air around the destroyed World Trade Center was safe to breathe.

Christie Whitman, former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, denounced what she called "misinformation, innuendo, and outright falsehoods" leveled against her and the agency.

"There are people to blame. They are the terrorists that attacked the United States, not the men and women of all levels of government," Whitman said.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., accused Whitman of deliberately misleading people in New York about the health risks, with devastating results, CBS News correspondent Bob Fuss reports.

"The administration has continued to make false, misleading and inaccurate statements, and refused to take remedial actions, even in the face of overwhelming evidence," said Nadler, whose district includes the World Trade Center site.


Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/25/national/main2976410.shtml

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Do they have any jurisdiction to call Rudy in and grill him? He deserves it as much as Whitman.

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Rudy the fair haired republicon?

You know they will NEVER hold HIM accountable.

[lovuian]

2. Dust to Dust My You tube movie on Rudy and Christine

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1B2WBD-F-7I

the thousands of deaths of NYers are coming in the droves
What a legacy???


Also this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKYJNTJs7Jg

if you worked in lower Manhatten worry

[SpiralHawk]

3. "i was just following the lead of Commander AWOL" - Whitman

"When I saw our republicon hero, Commander AWOL, sit on his ass doing NOTHING to protect Americans, I figured he was the model for the rest of the republicon bureacracy So I bought a copy of My Pet Goat and sat on my ass doing nothing, just like Commander AWOL" - WitlessMan

[Mnpaul]

4. Good job Keith!

Whitman pointed out that her son was in the World Trade Center complex that day, "and I almost lost him," at which point Ellison said he would not "stand here and allow you to try to obfuscate."

Keep the pressure on these a**holes and don't let them use their 9/11 card

[Eugene]

5. Blame the terr'ists, not me. Those extreme critics are so unfair!

:nopity:

Source: BBC News

Last Updated: Tuesday, 26 June 2007, 01:04 GMT 02:04 UK

Official defends WTC air advice
By Laura Trevelyan
BBC News, New York

The US official who said the air at Ground Zero in New York
was safe after 9/11 has defended her advice.

-snip-

The public face of reassurance was Christine Todd Whitman.

-snip-

"EPA's most extreme critics have alleged that I knowingly
misled New Yorkers and the workers of Ground Zero about the
safety risks associated with environmental contamination,"
she said.

"The destructive and incendiary charge was investigated by
EPA's inspector-general, who confirmed in her 2003 report
that we did not conceal any of our test data from the public.

"In fact, within days of the 9/11 report, I authorised EPA
to post all the test data, all of it, on a public website.
I did so precisely because I wanted to be as transparent
to the public as possible," she added.

-snip-

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6239762.stm

[Hekate]

6. How do either of them sleep at night, while New Yorkers choke to death daily?

Of all the awful images from Ground Zero, one that distressed me over and over was the sight of all those workers searching and then clearing the site WITHOUT RESPIRATORS to protect them.

I simply could not understand how in hell the government could allow it -- but that was before I saw the Drowning of New Orleans live and on television.

How do these people sleep at night? :cry:

Hekate