How many of those base officials who knew and hid it, now live on a fully-taxpayer funded retirement with full benefits?
They ought to be in prison...
None of the information about cause of poisoning was in the article or any of the attached articles. I had to do a search and read the one from Wikipedia which did not go into detail about the guilty parties. I can assume your comments are spot on.
I was hoping I wasn’t going to be the sole person making that point.
NC’s 3rd Congressional District has historically been Dem until 1995...ironically with Republican Senators.
There are no easy answers to a problem I didn’t know existed until reading this op-ed. I didn’t research all major drinking water scandals in the US for my book, but I’m curious why this one didn’t turn up in my research.
Somebody beyond the VA was obviously pulling the strings to control this problem (I’m thinking Jesse Helms).
This is pertinent, but at a glance no more revealing: A Trust Betrayed by Mike Magner (2014)
https://books.google.com/books?id=WcMKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT61&lpg=PT61&dq=jesse+helms+camp+lejeune&source=bl&ots=9kusO82GOS&sig=-MnfOnc9_lYbuIEoMzrVzdl6ajc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi0mqWdvcnZAhVVwGMKHS97API4ChDoAQgvMAM#v=onepage&q&f=false