EPA lies about White House role in WTC air quality coverup

[screembloodymurder]

This ABC News report has been discussed,

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20030822_1670.html

but I just read it and I know someone who was brought in and fired for telling the truth.

http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/12800/story.htm

Below is the EPA's spin on how the WH was involved.

"The White House was involved in making sure that we were getting the most accurate information that was real, on a wide range of activities. That included the NSC this was a major terrorist incident," Connaughton said.

"In the back and forth during that very intense period of time," he added, "we were making decisions about where the information should be released, what the best way to communicate the information was, so that people could respond responsibly and so that people had a good relative sense of potential risk."

Andy Darrell, New York regional director of Environmental Defense, an advocacy group, said the report is indicative of a pattern of White House interference in EPA affairs. "For EPA to do its job well, it needs to be allowed to make decisions based on the science and the facts," he said.

Marianne L. Horinko, EPA's acting administrator, said in a telephone interview Friday that the inspector general's report said the White House's role was mainly to help EPA sift through an enormous amount of information.

"We put out the best information we had, based on just the best data that we had available at the time," said Horinko, who headed the agency's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, which oversaw the World Trade Center environmental monitoring and cleanup.

LIES, LIES, LIES
They fired Piotr Chemielinski and anyone else that told the truth about the air quality. Is that sorting out the data?

Here's the truth.
http://911.gmu.edu/objects/104.pdf

[Maccagirl]

1. The easier question would be

What don't they lie about?

[ithacan]

2. No way Bush will get NY in 2004 once this comes out

Not that there was a great chance anyway, but this is the nail in the coffin, if the media actually reports it.

New Yorkers will not buy the BS about "national security".

See, these right-wing a**holes in the white house are really good at digging their own graves. Let's just hope they keep on performing in character.