This is something that'll be keep secret...excuse...due to National Security. Haven't you noticed how old Jaybird has gone completely silent? Didn't even hear anything out of him with the mine tragedy in his home state of W.VA....strange...
"Haven't you noticed how old Jaybird has gone completely silent? Didn't even hear anything out of him with the mine tragedy in his home state of W.VA....strange...
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Not really. He hasn't gone silent. Do search on Google News for "rockefeller sago mine" (no quotes). You'll find lots of statements in the media from him. Whether you like the statements or not, it's incorrect to say he has been silent.
From the NYT. Rockefeller has made several statements about this tragedy, and the media has reported them:
"Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, Democrat of West Virginia, met with several families of the dead miners on Thursday afternoon and then visited the Sago Baptist Church, the epicenter of the emotional explosion when anxious relatives were first told that all 11 miners had survived and then, about three hours later, that all but one had died."
U.S. Senator Rockefeller Angry About Mine Miscommunication
1-6-06
Such miscommunication "never should have happened."
Story by The Associated Press
TALLMANSVILLE, W.Va. (AP) - U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller says the miscommunication that led families to believe that 12 miners had survived this week's Upshur County mine explosion is an outrage.
He says the families were really let down and hurt -- and that it never should have happened.
Rockefeller made his comments last night while visiting Sago Baptist Church, which served as a gathering place for the miners' families as they awaited word on the fate of their loved ones.
A little before midnight Tuesday, the families received word that all but one of the 13 miners who had been trapped in the Sago Mine since early Monday were alive. They didn't find out until three hours later that only one had survived.
Both Rockefeller and fellow West Virginia Democratic Senator Robert C. Byrd received the erroneous information from the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration. And both senators say the agency neglected to call them back when the mistake was realized.