Public Misled on Air Quality After 9/11 Attack, Judge Says - New York Times: "In her ruling, Judge Batts decided not to dismiss the case against Mrs. Whitman, who is being sued both as former administrator of the E.P.A. and as an individual.
As a legal matter, the ruling established that the suit's charges were well-documented and troubling enough to meet a legal standard to go forward. But Judge Batts also criticized Mrs. Whitman's performance in the days after the collapse of the towers unleashed, by the E.P.A.'s estimates, one million tons of dust on lower Manhattan and beyond.
'The allegations in this case of Whitman's reassuring and misleading statements of safety after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks are without question conscience-shocking,' Judge Batts said. "
Once again, the cronies of the Bush administration have demonstrated unbelievable incompetance. From the Department of Defense's lack of proper prior planning (resulting in the emergency action on the part of the National Guard & in thousands of military & civilian casualties), to the extreme mismanagement of FEMA, to the industry shill mis-management of the Mine Safety & Health Administration (sic), and countless others, the Bush administration has clearly demonstrated its lack of concern for the safety and well-being of Americans and others.
Congress, both Democrats & Republicans are completely complict in this dismantling of the government which was proscribed by the Constitution as being "of the people, by the people and for the people."
We are but a sad pale shade of what our forefathers hoped for.
