[HitmanLV]

Nadler is right.

[crazyhorse691]

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

[cgk]

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?

[Peach]

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?

[Diddle E. Squat]

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."

[freema]

"'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.

[oceanview]

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.

[kcvl]

"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.

[Bommer]

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!

[Dilbert56]

When Hillary first made this charge Gulianni responded. He said the City, the workers' unions, the EPA, and several other agencies were all monitoring the site. Their data agreed. According to Rudi, the EPA slanted nothing. I do remember some workers eschewing respirators as too cumbersome as they fought to look for survivors.

[Rabble]

Batts is Bats !!