Hillary was blaming Bush for this about a year ago.
What they don't mention is the number of rescuers who refused to wear respirator.
Some of the private industry health and safety officers on site were frustrated about the low useage rates.
It seems that the respirators were uncomfortable and a hindrance.
Professional responders/resuers know that after securing the scene the number one rule is to stay part of the solution not part of the problem by unnecessarily risking their lives or safety.
What Christie Todd Whitman did as head of the EPA in the weeks after the attack were a tragedy. More people will die premature deaths from that smoke than from the WTC collapse because the EPA steamrolled or falsified air quality testing reports, and Whitman went forward as a public spokeswoman for the deadly charade.
I live 30 miles from WTC, and the day after the attack you couldn't help coughing when outside here. Anyone with any sense knew what was going on with the air quality.