Inspector general says White House changed EPA statements ...

[BadGimp]

What was known about post-9/11 air

Inspector general says White House changed EPA statements about safety at Ground Zero

By Lisa Myers - NBC NEWS
Sept. 3 — Just days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the agency responsible for the environmental health of Americans declared the air and water safe in New York. But now, in her first interview since the release of a troubling report, the Environmental Protection Agency’s top watchdog says the agency didn’t have the facts when it said it was safe to move back to the neighborhoods near Ground Zero. And she’s pointing the finger all the way to the White House.

IN THE WAKE of 9/11, there were serious concerns about whether the air around Ground Zero was filled with toxins - unsafe for workers and residents.

But by Sept. 18, 2001, many New Yorkers were back in their apartments and on the job. Partly because of a press release that day from the Environmental Protection Agency reassuring New Yorkers that “their air is safe to breathe.”

Was that press release misleading? According to Nikki Tinsley, “It was surely not telling all of the truth.”

In an exclusive interview, Inspector General Tinsley, the EPA’s top watchdog, tells NBC News the agency simply did not have sufficient data to justify such a reassurance.

In fact, a new report by Tinsley’s office says, at the time, more than 25 percent of dust samples collected before Sept. 18 showed unsafe levels of asbestos. And the EPA had no test results at all on PCBs, dioxins or particulates in the air that can cause respiratory problems.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/961134.asp?0na=x22149d4-
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[Beetwasher]

1. This should be on the front page of every fucking newspaper

and reported as the top story on every fucking news show.

What else can be said? There's not much that's more incriminating and criminal than this. Those motherfucking douchebags. I had to breath that air.

[dusty64]

3. It ought to be, but I barely

saw mention of it even on the NY Times website. Whitman lied about this just the other day, THAT got media time. Our regime lies, People die where is the anger?

[Flying_Pig]

5. And yet more proof of the media conspiracy to protect...

Bush, that it's not! The godamned media is as guilty as anyone, of all the crimes the Bush regime has committed. Come 05', they are going to pay, and pay big, for their dirty work and treason.

:mad:
Grrr!

[Cha]

7. I found it incredible when that report first came out ....that the

air was "fine"!

[Suspicious]

11. Same here.

Complete and utter BS, is what I thought. All of those firefighters and volunteers coming away from Ground Zero with respiratory problems made me cringe, and I wondered how long it would be before we heard the truth. I still wonder. How long before we hear of the first of those firefighters and volunteers dying from lung cancer or any number of other horrid illnesses?

The whole situation makes me sick. The criminality of this administration is so far beyond the pale, one has to wonder how it is that the majority of America remains asleep.

[drscm]

2. What's a little dirty air in New York, when

*Bush is busy trying to figure out how to pollute the entire nation for his corporate buddies' welfare.

[hang a left]

4. drip, drip, drip

lets hope it makes the nightly news

[ewagner]

9. Made MSNBC

Just caught a glimpse of Christie Todd Whitman...

same bullshit...we didn't lie, we used the best info available at the time etc.,

[Cha]

6. This is one of those ..."This is freakin' Huge"! But will it go ..

anywhere with the somnolent masses?

[Cha]

8. On second thought...it would go Somewhere if they would

REPORT ON IT! :kick:

Damn the hides of the mediawhores!

[JPace]

10. I knew when they said it that...

it could not be true, all one had
to do was look at all that garbage
in the air and it could not possibly
be safe to breath.

But then I am chemically sensitive
and am attune to these things.

Its hard to understand how sick one
can become when the body is overloaded
with chemicals until it happens. I
am sure many innocent New Yorkers have
lost and will lose their health because
they trusted the government.

When they get sick the system will not
support them, just like our sick Vets
from Desert Storm one, they will be
ignored and belittled.

[stickdog]

12. Once again, this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes

to Bush's White House suppressing life saving EPA warnings.


White House Suppression, the EPA, WR Grace, Deadly Asbestos, WTC Collapse, Plane Crashes & Wellstone:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=5471&forum=DCForumID43

[alfredo]

13. Asbestos-Dresser Industries-Cheney.

It is time to impeach.