After 9/11, Sen. Hillary Clinton was instrumental in getting treatment for Ground Zero rescuers
Short andsweet.
After 9/11, Sen. Hillary Clinton was instrumental in getting treatment for Ground Zero rescuers
http://m.dailykos.com/stories/1568395
Sep 09, 2016 3:31pm CST by Hunter
As we near the 9/11 anniversary, again, let us all take a moment to remember that the junior senator from New York made it a personal mission to ensure rescue workers and others affected by the poisoned air of above Ground Zero were not ignored by their government—during a time when ignoring them was the defacto position of that government. There's tapes of that, by the way.
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!”
Survivors from the attacks who met Clinton at the time tell now-familiar stories: she genuinely cared about them, she followed up afterward, she had an impressive command of detail, and she was relentless in twisting arms in the recalcitrant system until it delivered results..............................
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