9/11 tapes reveal raw and emotional Hillary Clinton

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9/11 tapes reveal raw and emotional Hillary Clinton

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/09/hillary-clinton-9-11-attacks-response#img-1


We partnered with WNYC to look back at Clinton’s time at Ground Zero – a far cry from the controlled figure now a step away from the presidency




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Hillary Clinton listens to firefighters during a tour of the World Trade Center disaster site in September 2001.


Ed Pilkington and Andrea Bernstein in New York
@edpilkington

Friday 9 September 2016 04.00 EDT
Last modified on Friday 9 September 2016 17.00 EDT



It was 26 August 2003, almost two years since 9/11, and the sickening plume of smoke that hung over Ground Zero in lower Manhattan had long since dissipated. But steam was rising from the steps of city hall, three blocks away, where Hillary Clinton was venting her rage at the Bush administration for having lied to the American people.

“I don’t think any of us expected that our government would knowingly deceive us about something as sacred as the air we breathe,” she said, her voice tightening in anger. “The air that our children breathe in schools, that our valiant first responders were facing on the pile.”

Surrounded by firefighters and the doctors who were treating them for respiratory and other illnesses incurred when they worked on the massive mound of Ground Zero rubble – the “pile”, as it was known – the junior senator from New York was incandescent. Audiotape recorded at the time by WNYC, the city’s public radio affiliate, captures a Clinton quite unlike the controlled public figure who is now a step away from the White House.
Andrea Bernstein, senior editor politics and policy for WNYC, listens back to Hillary Clinton’s comments in the wake of 9/11.

The Clinton who emerges from the WNYC tapes is passionate, raw and unrestrained. Above all, she is livid. She had just learned that the Bush administration instructed officials of the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reassure New Yorkers after 9/11 that the air over Ground Zero was safe. In fact, they had a pretty good idea that it was a toxic pall of asbestos, cement, glass dust, heavy metals, fuels and PCBs.

“I am outraged,” Clinton went on. “In the immediate aftermath, the first couple of days, nobody could know. But a week later? Two weeks later? Two months later? Six months later? Give me a break!”.....................





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[greatlaurel]

1. Thank you so much for this post.

Hillary Clinton did an outstanding job in this investigation. Her depth of understanding of the complex issues of exposure to toxic pollutants, worker safety and, not only the failure, but the total disregard for the health and safety of both the workers and the public were incredible. I have never seen another politician with the ability to comprehend these issues so thoroughly.

The Bush administration and Mayor Giuliani willfully exposed the citizens and the workers to the massive amounts of asbestos and other toxic substances. All the workers should have been issued respirators and full protective gear. The citizens leaving walking through the cloud should have been given emergency showers, something as crude as opening fire hydrants and passing out bottles of Dawn and baby shampoo to wash off and wet the toxins and asbestos fibers would have saved thousands from these terrible illnesses. Christy Todd Whitman betrayed those citizens for political expediency.

[steve2470]

2. can't see the pics nt

[YOHABLO]

3. Cheney and the rest of the crew should be in jail. Bush should be in a mental institution.