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Today on Flashpoint:
A White House led cover-up of the toxic dangers from 9/11
jeopardizes the lives of tens of thousands of New Yorkers:
We'll feature an in-depth interview with the EPA scientist
who refused to be silenced;
Also we'll speak to an environmental justice lawyer working
with the EPA's clean-up victims of 9/11;
The Knight Report
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report with Robert Knight
In today's Knight Report, new activities by Israeli death
squads and Palestinian suicide bombers; continuing resistance
to the United States occupation of Iraq, where the cost of
war now equals that of Vietnam; also a reassessment of George
Bush's weapons of mass destruction claims that were used to
start the war in Iraq.
5:05 PM PST
Dennis Bernstein talks with EPA scientist Cate Jenkins about
how the public was lied to concerning the toxic dangers after
the 9/11 in Manhattan.
It is clear now that the White House, the EPA and the National
Security Council participated in a massive cover-up of the
real toxic dangers to those residents and rescue workers living
and working in lower Manhattan in the days, weeks, months
and years following the 9/11 attacks. According to medical
experts, this White House led cover-up could ultimately lead
to cancers and life-threatening illness in thousands of people
who unwittingly returned to their homes and their jobs after
being assured by the EPA that all was safe at ground zero.
Today in Washington, EPA whistleblower Cate Jenkins released,
in conjunction with New York representative Jerrold Nadler,
a report which exposes the government's failure to disclose
the extent of toxic materials in the air and on the ground,
as well as its failure to provide sufficient removal and cleanup
of these toxins. According to Cate Jenkins, the token cleanup
administered by the EPA was itself sub par with federal health
standards and lethal toxins continue to linger all over Manhattan.
Cate Jenkins speaks with Dennis from Washington DC.
5:36 PM PST
Dennis Bernstein talks with Joel Kupferman, Executive Director
of the New York Environmental Law and Justice Project.
On September 19, 2001, one day after the EPA declared that
New York air was safe to breath, New York Environmental Law
took samples in lower Manhattan and sent them to two respected
labs. According to Kupferman the results came back with alarmingly
high levels of toxins such as asbestos and fiberglass. The
group filed a freedom of information request to EPA, and received
some 800 pages of raw data that revealed that, in spite of
their insistences to the contrary, EPA, OCEA and various other
health and environmental agencies knew of dangers present
at ground zero and beyond on the ground and in the air. Joining
Dennis to talk about what the New York Environmental Law and
Justice Project found and the deadly situation that may still
exist in lower Mahattan is Joel Kupferman.
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