Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christine Todd Whitman went before a House subcommittee Monday to testify about the EPA's reports on the air quality of Lower Manhattan in the aftermath of 9/11, reports which have come under extreme criticism for apparent contradictions and questionable revisions by the White House. Whitman seemed to rest contentedly however on the reassurances she pushed at the time, despite the number of workers and residents that have grown sick and dying in the ensuing years.
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I sympathize with the survivors of this catastrophe. I do not think that enough was done. However, this video does not clearly present the truth about the air quality. That could have been established by a timeline displaying what was known and when it was known and by whom. The scene of the man reading the statements of science, which are supposed to contradict the EPA, is not fixed by date and by revealing where the information was in the flow of data to the government officials. Without clear deliniation of such facts, this video seems flimsy--squanders integrity and validity.