Reply #2: It's Bush's fault according to her [View All]

[young_at_heart]

She said that she was addressing residents of Lower Manhattan — not workers at ground zero. This was in her testimony to Congress in 2007. In April 2008 the US Court of Appeals said that Whitman had based her information on contradictory information and statements from President Bush. The U.S. Department of Justice had argued that holding the agency liable would establish a risky legal precedent because future public officials would be afraid to make public statements.