Hillary: White House Higher-ups to Blame for Bogus 9/11 EPA Report

Newsmax.com ^ | 8-26-03 | Carl Limbacher

[Paul Atreides]

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton demanded answers on Tuesday about a misleading Environmental Protection Agency report issued just days after the 9/11 attacks, saying she suspects "somebody further up the chain" at the White House "probably" gave the order to omit or change information on the dangers posed by airborne contaminants in and around Ground Zero.

"Somebody sent an email, somebody called for a meeting, somebody in that White House probably under instructions from somebody further up the chain told the EPA, 'Don't tell the people of New York the truth,'" Clinton told reporters.

"And I want to know who that is," she angrily insisted.

Last week a report released by the EPA's inspector general, Nikki Tinsley, alleged that the White House ordered the agency to downplay the threat posed by Ground Zero air.

Instead of revealing the dangers in the days after 9/11, Tinsley said the EPA was ordered to certify that the air was safe despite inadequate testing.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, who represents the Ground Zero district, has called for a Justice Department probe into possible criminal charges against both EPA and White House officials.

"The White House and the EPA chose to increase the threat to the health and lives of New Yorkers by lying about the environmental conditions, by telling people that the air was safe to breathe and that they could go back to their homes when there was no scientific data to support this," he complained to the New York Daily News over the weekend.

EPA spokeswoman Lisa Harrison defended the White House, telling the News, "We believe that this inspector general's report is flawed on a number of fronts, namely that it did not take into account the unprecedented nature of the World Trade Center attack and the chaotic nature of the aftermath."

Harrison explained that contrary to the impression left by the report, her agency clearly warned Ground Zero workers and people with respiratory problems to take precautions.

[TheCrusader]

"somebody in that White House"

"That" White House as opposed to "this" White House? How many White Houses are there?

[At _War_With_Liberals]

The Dummy's tooth is whiter, but all in all, a dead ringer...

[Calpernia]

>>>Who is going to be legally responsible when the people who were breathing all this crap in their lungs get sick and die at an early rate?

Maybe the terrorists that launched the attack?

Trust me, I live here. I don't care what reports were out there. Anyone breathing here knows the air wasn't right. What was the alternative? Evacuating the tristate area?

[Fred Mertz]

Anyone breathing here knows the air wasn't right.

Did you take any precautions or do anything differently because of the tainted air?

[Calpernia]

Uh, Fred, we could have bought them without being advised. Trust me, it stunk of wet burning flesh and thick dust well into November. We didn't need a report to know why we were coughing.

[Calpernia]

No.

[Fred Mertz]

If the EPA gave you the real story and provided precaution advice, would you have followed it?

[Calpernia]

Nope. You would have had to been here to understand things fully. We lost friends/relatives, there were riots, memorials, et al.

First thing you have to do is make life as normal as possible for the kids. You try forcing small children to wear a mask for dangers unseen while scary things are going on....

i would do it the same way again.

[Calpernia]

Hum, we are also in the anthrax area too. We never used a mask in handling the mail either.

[Fred Mertz]

Thanks for your honest feedback. I was born in NYC and lost a college classmate on 9/11 in the Twin Towers and several acquaintances in the Pentagon.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

"Who is going to be legally responsible when the people who were breathing all this crap in their lungs get sick and die at an early rate?"

Puhlease. Hillary is setting the stage for a lawyer frenzy as well as a Bush attack and enviro cult assault.

3,000 people die in a massacre and certain Americans are going to blame someone for breathing in areas they know are not safe- no govt warning is needed when there is an inch of dust on everything. When you do demo in an old house, for example, you wear a mask because it is likely there is lead, asbestos, etc possibly in the air. You don't need a govt agency to tell you that. you use common sense. After the WTC attack, everyone was saying air quality was a problem. It was common knowledge.

i'm tired of this victim society we live in. All the hypochondriacs, enviro whackos and sue crazy litigators will come out now and make this nothing into the environmental disaster of the century.

And the sheeple will see it in the media and be convinced that the Republicans are killing innocents again. Great...

[The Wizard]

go away and never return...no one cares what you think, no one wants to hear your comments but you....

[At _War_With_Liberals]

It's all Chelsea knows.

I've never heard her rule it out.

After what she has been thru, she sure as hell has a position on it... since its not 'no', it must be yes.

[Mo1]

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton demanded answers on Tuesday about a misleading Environmental Protection Agency report issued just days after the 9/11 attacks, saying she suspects "somebody further up the chain" at the White House "probably" gave the order to omit or change information on the dangers posed by airborne contaminants in and around Ground Zero.

"Somebody sent an email, somebody called for a meeting, somebody in that White House probably under instructions from somebody further up the chain told the EPA, 'Don't tell the people of New York the truth,'" Clinton told reporters.

"And I want to know who that is," she angrily insisted.

Gosh golly gee .. she is throwing accusation with no proof of anything .. must less proof of an email and then demands to know who it was

Sounds like the same talking points of Bob Graham and Wesley Clark

[The Wizard]

for what it's worth the beast is going no where, her political career is over in 2006 and that's all there is

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I wonder who this guy Somebody is??

The youngest brother of "I dunno" & "Nobody," both of whom spent way too much time at my house when my kids were small.

[Mo1]

If it sticks, it's going to do all sorts of damage.

Read the article again

saying she suspects "somebody further up the chain" at the White House "probably" gave the order

She thinks .. she assumes and yet has no proof

This sounds like sound bites to discredit the Bush Administration AGAIN

[Calpernia]

Was that post to me? Or http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/971049/posts?page=43#28

[Calpernia]

We all lost a lot. Everyone was affected. I was just trying to draw a picture about my reasons for not wearing a mask.

[dogbyte12]

Trust me, I live here. I don't care what reports were out there. Anyone breathing here knows the air wasn't right. What was the alternative? Evacuating the tristate area?

You mean the alternative to lying? How about not saying anything instead of lying that the air had been checked to be safe?

How about saying to wear masks, keep kids, elderly, the ill indoors, but otherwise go on. But altering EPA negative news, and doctoring up false reports of pie in the sky, and putting it under an NSA umbrella bites. I would love to know how many people would just accept this if the EPA did this on Clinton's watch.

Clinton is president, an event 10 times oklahoma city happens, his EPA people say "we checked, everything is fine", and repeats the lie for 9 months, until they actually bother checking the particulates in the air. Several people nearby get respiratory problems. I am sure everybody would say, oh that is swell. What else was there to be done?

I don't hate Bill as much as Hillary. So my test is always Hillary. If this happened on her watch, how would I react. It usually leads me to understand if a story is really important or not.

If Hillary's EPA did this, I would want the Secretary of the EPA impaled on a stick, with dioxin and asbestos shoved down their throat. But that is just me.