Newsday: White House 9/11 Coverup

White House Deceit Covered Up 9/11 Truths

Newsday -August 28, 2003

By Marie Cocco

The thing you have to remember, when you see in black and white the hogwash the Bush White House forced the Environmental Protection Agency to tell the people of Lower Manhattan after their neighborhood was attacked by terrorists, is that the scandal did not begin with fibbing about whether the air was safe to breathe.

No. The cornerstone of the edifice of deception about the events of Sept. 11, 2001, was laid that morning aboard Air Force One. "No warnings," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer declared when asked if the president had been shown a sign that terrorists might strike with catastrophic fury.

We know now there were months of warnings, fearful cries rising up from the intelligence agencies that a horror could unfold. The FBI had provided the White House with analysis of "patterns of activity consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks," according to the joint congressional committee that probed intelligence failures before 9/11.

How do you stack this up alongside the asthma cases and the chronic coughs and the nagging concern of people who don't know if cancer is in their family's future because asbestos, or some other toxin that spewed from Ground Zero, still is embedded in their homes and schools and in the office carpet?

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