Rep. Nadler's Op-Ed @ NYT on Christie Todd Whitman's complicity

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Op-Ed Contributor
Air of Truth

By JERROLD NADLER
Published: July 8, 2007
Washington

IN her recent testimony before the House subcommittee that I lead, Christie Whitman, the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, played a shell game intended to create confusion about the federal government’s failure to protect rescue workers and others in New York after the World Trade Center towers fell on Sept. 11.

With more testing, it became clear the air was far from safe, but pressure from the White House kept that information from the public. A Sept. 14 draft of an E.P.A. press release referred to tests showing elevated asbestos levels and expressed concern for workers at the cleanup site and for employees who would be returning to their offices “on or near Water Street” on Sept. 17. The White House deleted that warning and replaced it with: “Our tests show that it is safe for New Yorkers to go back to work in New York’s financial district...”

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...Perhaps the most shocking data Mrs. Whitman selectively ignored when she testified was a 2006 Mount Sinai Hospital study that shows 70 percent of the first 9,000 workers examined reported some kind of respiratory problem after working on the pile. Thousands of people are suffering, at least in part, because of our government’s failures following 9/11, yet those responsible ignore the outcome just as they ignored the warnings.

And, just days after our hearing, the Government Accountability Office reported that the Environmental Protection Agency used the same playbook of lies about asbestos and air quality in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, four years after 9/11...

[aquart]

1. MY rep. MINE. So proud.

[FourScore]

2. You should be.

Mine is pretty cool too: Congressman Hinchey of NY.

[rodeodance]

3. oh it was done 'for the good of the country'--------most likely will be their excuse.

[bananas]

4. link? nt

[TheWebHead]

5. link here

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/opinion/nyregionopinions/08CInadler.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[FourScore]

9. Thanks Webhead. n/t

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8. Sorry. That's what I get for posting at 3AM . n/t

[Richard Steele]

6. K&R

[Forkboy]

7. FUCK NADLER!

Oh wait...those Nader threads are getting to me. :D