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Judge Slams Ex-EPA Chief Over Sept. 11 (Christine Todd Whitman)
AP on Yahoo ^ | 2/2/06 | Larry Neumiester - ap

Posted on 02/02/2006 6:34:19 PM PST by NormsRevenge

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1 posted on 02/02/2006 6:34:20 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Nadler is right.


2 posted on 02/02/2006 6:35:34 PM PST by HitmanLV (Listen to my demos for Savage Nation contest: http://www.geocities.com/mr_vinnie_vegas/index.html)
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Nadler is not right. Frankly, when it comes to the science part of the issue, he doesn't give a doggone. Still, that doesn't stop him from asking for a handout.

Never trust the motives of a Manhattan Liberal.

3 posted on 02/02/2006 6:38:23 PM PST by muawiyah (-)
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Downtown Manhattaners and Brooklyners do deserve answers. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.


4 posted on 02/02/2006 6:40:02 PM PST by HitmanLV (Listen to my demos for Savage Nation contest: http://www.geocities.com/mr_vinnie_vegas/index.html)
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To: NormsRevenge

I guess they should have just evacuated and cordoned off the affected areas until the threat of contamination had subsided.


5 posted on 02/02/2006 6:40:32 PM PST by crazyhorse691 (Diplomacy doesn't work when seagulls rain on your parade. A shotgun and umbrella does.)
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To: NormsRevenge
The EPA's internal watchdog later found that the agency, at the urging of White House officials, gave misleading assurances.

...at the urging of White House officials... where have I heard this charge before?

6 posted on 02/02/2006 6:42:01 PM PST by cgk (I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
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To: NormsRevenge
U.S. District Judge Deborah A. Batts refused to grant Whitman immunity against a class-action lawsuit brought in 2004 by residents, students and workers in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn who said they were exposed to hazardous materials from the destruction of the World Trade Center.

I thought elected officials and appointed cabinet members were exempt from this kind of lawsuit?

7 posted on 02/02/2006 6:42:09 PM PST by Peach
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To: HitmanLV
That still doesn't make Nadler correct. Read what he said again ~ that he's sure some workplaces and residences were not properly cleaned.

He expressed no concern for public health, just the cleaning job to be done at public expense by members of a union that contributes to his campaigns.

8 posted on 02/02/2006 6:43:48 PM PST by muawiyah (-)
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To: NormsRevenge

http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2001/10/24_batts.php

"A portrait of United States District Judge Deborah A. Batts, the first and only openly gay, lesbian or bisexual member of the federal judiciary, will be unveiled at Harvard Law School..."

"Judge Batts, an African-American woman, was appointed to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1994 by President Clinton. Prior to joining the bench, she was an associate professor at Fordham University School of Law where she continues to serve as an adjunct professor."


9 posted on 02/02/2006 6:45:47 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat
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"'No reasonable person would have thought that telling thousands of people that it was safe to return to lower Manhattan, while knowing that such return could pose long-term health risks and other dire consequences, was conduct sanctioned by our laws,' the judge said."

There was no reasonable person or said reasonable person would have spoken out at the time, dear judge.

Talk about stupid.

Really. Everyone should have been evacuated and a giant tarp dropped over the hole by a helicopter. Gimme a break.


10 posted on 02/02/2006 6:47:54 PM PST by freema (Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: Diddle E. Squat

D. Batts.

11 posted on 02/02/2006 7:00:30 PM PST by raybbr (ANWR is a barren, frozen wasteland - like the mind of a democrat!)
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To: HitmanLV

If they had shut down NY then Nadler would be complaining about how NY had been shut down too long.


12 posted on 02/02/2006 7:01:32 PM PST by raybbr (ANWR is a barren, frozen wasteland - like the mind of a democrat!)
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Do ya get the feeling this affair has more to do with union contracts and trial lawyer commissions than it does with public health?

Leave it to good ol' American ingenuity to turn a calamitous terrorist attack into a gravy train.

13 posted on 02/02/2006 7:01:36 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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No, Really????
I am sick of sycophant "justices" pontificating from the Bench. It is NOT Christine Todd Whitman's fault, IT WAS THE ISLAMOFACISTS FAULT!
Why don't idiots like this get it?


14 posted on 02/02/2006 7:39:30 PM PST by Shady
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To: NormsRevenge

you couldn't have stopped anyone from going down there. the construction workers, the fireman, the police. alot of them worked aithout breathing protection, even a simple mask, I don't know why, but its not because of Whitman.


15 posted on 02/02/2006 7:40:54 PM PST by oceanview
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To: Diddle E. Squat

that's all we need to know.


16 posted on 02/02/2006 7:41:44 PM PST by oceanview
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To: Diddle E. Squat; raybbr

Good posts! Thanks for cutting to the chase.


17 posted on 02/02/2006 7:48:31 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: NormsRevenge
"I continue to believe that the White House owes New Yorkers an explanation," she (Hillary) said.

Hillary, you owe the American people more than an explanation of how "your husband" allowed 9/11 to happen in the first place, you evil *itch. Instead of worrying about interns he should have been worrying about TERRORISM.

18 posted on 02/02/2006 7:53:51 PM PST by kcvl
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To: NormsRevenge
When the 2 tallest skyscrapers in the world, with all the millions of tubes of fluorescent light bulbs that were in them comes crashing down, sorry, but anyone there without a full blown respirator was asking to die early! Gallant effort, but with risks comes responsibility. Whining about the "health risks" 5 years after the fact is sheer stupidity as demonstrated by Democraps!
19 posted on 02/02/2006 8:12:31 PM PST by Bommer (Ted Kennedy - Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life!)
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If the consensus is that it wasn't safe in the area, why should Whitman say that it is safe? Shouldn't she say it isn't safe, but anyone who thinks it's important to go there can do so?


20 posted on 02/02/2006 8:28:28 PM PST by Tymesup
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