Posted on 08/30/2018 9:12:46 PM PDT by KingofZion
FBI Agent Dave LeValley was driving to work in Manhattan when he saw the first jetliner strike the World Trade Center on a bright September morning 17 years ago. He quickly parked his car and sprinted to the scene, where he scoured for evidence and helped survivors while dodging falling debris and bodies.
When the first tower collapsed, he dove into a bodega, escaping with his life. What he couldn’t outrun: the toxic cloud of dust.
“We saw him a couple of hours later, and he looked like a snowman, covered head to toe in that stuff,” said Gregory W. Ehrie, a fellow FBI agent who spent several weeks with LeValley digging in the rubble.
LeValley, who joined the FBI in 1996 and rose to lead the bureau’s Atlanta office, was diagnosed in 2008 with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. He died in May, age 53, from a different form of cancer that had metastasized to his brain. FBI officials and health experts say both were likely caused by carcinogenic fumes and dust after the Sept. 11 attacks.
While one FBI agent was killed in the attacks, 15 have died from cancers linked to toxic exposure during the subsequent investigation and cleanup, the FBI says. Three of them, including LeValley, have died since March — a rash of deaths that has reopened traumas of the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history and sparked fresh anxieties.
“It’s like Bin Laden is still reaching out from the grave,” said FBI Agent Thomas O’Connor, who is president of the FBI Agents Assn., a service and advocacy group for active and former agents. “It affects us all in serious ways. People are dying, others are sick. Those that are not yet sick wonder — is that headache, is it really cancer? ***
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Be nice if a) our government wasn’t infested with muslims and muslim sympathizers and b) we weren’t importing muslims to help turn our country into a third world shiite hole.
What a timely story about / by / for the F.I.B.s.
Nothing like tugging on heartstrings when you have been shown to be corrupt deep staters.
It was the U.S. government who welcomed in these terrorist and then gave them the opportunity to learn how to fly our own aircraft at an American flight school.
This is what chain immigration brought us.
Not so sure this isn't some fluff image rehabilitation article?
Not so sure this isn't some fluff image rehabilitation article?
You’re selling out to the Chinese what the hell you care about the Muslims ?
Exactly. The word has obviously gone out to the media: We need touchy-feely stories about brave and stalwart FBI agents. Stat!
Exactly. Pitifully transparent.
Must be getting dank in the weasel pen.
Maybe if Mueller was doing his job back then, he would have paid attention to reports of islaminals training to fly planes but not land them.
This lame attempt to rehabilitate the FBI ain’t gonna fly.
Good point. I should have noticed the source was LA Times so fake news.
What happened to all those agents we were told that were lined up ready to blow the whistle on their corrupt bosses? Their bosses who conspired and attempted to undermine and compromise a candidate and then President of the United States, changing history to suit their political agenda. Where’d they go?
Yeah, if you believe Osama bin Laden is dead.
ok, so why are they not doing detoxes? some are pretty simple (2-3 days) and effective. May not help all but come on 17 yrs later and people justletting toxicity linger and over take them like they have no choice? every day is a choice to get cleared out or just let it grow into some thing and claim victimhood.
not just pciking on 9-11 but any flood, volcanic eruption or any sort of natural or man made toxic event - detox, don’t let the bastard (illness) take hold or win.
Likely is the key word.
"15 have died from cancers linked to toxic exposure during the subsequent investigation and cleanup, the FBI says. Three of them, including LeValley, have died since March — a rash of deaths that has reopened traumas of the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history and sparked fresh anxieties."
What is the cancer rate within the FBI compared to the US population? Where are the same stats about the Firemen and NYPD and Port Authority Police, not to mention the hundreds who fled the scene through the dust?
"Those that are not yet sick wonder — is that headache, is it really cancer?"
Or is it not having a My Pillow? Are you fricking kidding me? This is the FBI?
1. They "wanted" to testify but also wanted a LAWYER. 2. Why a LAWYER? -They wanted IMMUNITY. 3.IMMUNITY from what? Having broken the LAW. It is a FELONY not to report a CRIME, viz another FELONY. What Felonies? Falsifying documents? Reports? Lies to Commissions, Office of IG or Professional whatever they allegedly have. Covering up Conspiracies; Sedition; RICO; laundering foreign $ via Clinton Fdn; Espionage Act etc. There is enough data out there to substantiate most of these allegations, IMHO. Just look up the ELEMENTS of each crime and furnish the data Sessions is sitting on and that the "FIBs" continue to hide for the i(D)iots. Hell, enough leads are published in Free Republic so that a competent, not corrupt, investigator could prove these crimes against the past Admin.
Indeed, like the i(D)iots want to do with TRUMP ANNUL HIS PRESIDENCY; HE WAS NOT ELIGIBLE TO BE PRESIDENT.
Press release from Langley, sent to the LA Times. Look for more of the same in the nect 10 day cycle.
And it is also strict policy not to publish field agents names. The fact the Times did so indicates the article came from the feds for pr purposes.
KSM is still alive and reading the Quran daily in jail.
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