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Who would expect anything but lies to hurt Americans from anyone in
the Bush Crime Family?  All bullshit...all the time.  You can't spell
Bullshit with out B-U-S-H...BUllSHit....

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:23:14 -0400, Slim <slim@pickins.com> wrote:

>Ex-EPA Chief Grilled Over 9/11 Response
>WASHINGTON, June 25, 2007
>
>(CBS/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.
>
>But Whitman insisted, sometimes angrily, that she never lied to the public.
>
>She said her public assurances about safe air were aimed at those 
>living and working near ground zero, not those actually working on the 
>toxic pile of debris.
>
>"I and other EPA officials publicly urged rescue and recovery workers 
>to wear protective gear that EPA had secured for their use at Ground 
>Zero," Whitman said.
>
>Since the attacks, independent government reviews have faulted the 
>EPA's handling of the immediate aftermath and the agency's long-term 
>cleanup program for nearby buildings. The 9/11 commission found no 
>evidence that the EPA was pressured to say the air was safe to permit 
>the city's financial markets to reopen.
>
>More than five years after the attacks, researchers are developing 
>evidence of the long-term health effects.
>
>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 suffered some sort of respiratory illness.
>
>A separate medical study released last month found that rescue workers 
>and firefighters contracted sarcoidosis, a serious lung-scarring 
>disease, at a rate more than five times higher than in the years before 
>the attacks.
>
>A delegation of activists and Sept. 11 rescue workers boarded a bus in 
>Manhattan early Monday to be present for the hearing.
>
>"We are stunned that she's sticking to her story," said community 
>activist Kimberly Flynn.