"at the urging of White House..." THIS should be the headline!

[wakemewhenitsover]

The fact that the White House told Christine Todd Whitman to lie is totally buried in the following Yahoo/AP story.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060203/ap_on_re_us/epa_sept11_lawsuit

[flordehinojos]

1. should her integrity be impugned? or should it be saved liked CONDOLIAR'S

own integrity as well?

He holds the cow is as guilty as he who kills the cow!

[salin]

2. I added that to the LBN story, my memory

that when the story was leaked, it included that she objected - but was pushed to make the statement.

That does not excuse her role - it makes it worse, she *knew* better - and acted anyhow. Like Powell, to have her integrity intact she should have resigned - and such a high profile resignation at that time would have brought attention to the issue and to the averice for power and the disregard for American citizens that rests in the sould of this administration.

[tecelote]

3. OMG! There may have been unborn fetuses harmed!

There must have been a few pregnant women working there. What were they thinking?!

[wakemewhenitsover]

5. Total hypocrisy.

[Lochloosa]

4. Damn activist Judges!

In her ruling, Batts noted that the EPA and Whitman said repeatedly — beginning just two days after the attack — that the air appeared safe to breathe. The EPA's internal watchdog later found that the agency, at the urging of White House officials, gave misleading assurances.

Quoting a ruling in an earlier case, the judge said a public official cannot be held personally liable for putting the public in harm's way unless the conduct was so egregious as "to shock the contemporary conscience." Given her role in protecting the health and environment for Americans, Whitman's reassurances after Sept. 11 were "without question conscience-shocking," Batts said.