to Monona Rossol, 11/15/01, www.whitelung.org,
34 seven blocks:
35 “We lost”/Torcivia: DiMarco, 191–,
36 2007 study: UPI, 5/9/07;
37 2,000 firefighters:
38 “The World Trade Center dust”: Voice of America, 4/8/10;
39 young attorney: (Felicia Dunn-Jones) “NYC Links First Death to Toxic Dust,” www.msnbc.com, 5/23/07;
40 “sick and under”: Fact Sheet, http://stws.org,
41 479 people:
42 One by one: e.g.,
43 risen to 664:
44 James Zadroga Act/$4.2 billion/“We will never”:
45 “very reassuring”: “EPA’s Response to the WTC Collapse”;
46 “safe to go”: ibid.,
47 “safe to breathe”: “EPA’s Response to the WTC Collapse.” John Henshaw has since explained that a decision not to enforce safety regulations was made because of the delay that would have caused: “We had to deploy a strategy that achieved compliance as soon as the hazard was recognized so corrective action was immediate.” Christine Todd Whitman, for her part, told a congressional committee that allegations that she misled New Yorkers about air quality in lower Manhattan were “outright falsehoods.” She said that reassurances that air quality was safe applied to lower Manhattan, not to Ground Zero itself (EHS
48 “I want”: Richard Clarke, 24. The President also discussed the closure of the markets with his assistant for economic policy, Larry Lindsey, urging a “return to normal as soon as possible.” Lindsey discussed with the EPA’s Christine Todd Whitman “the need to get the financial markets open quickly.” Whitman has denied that Lindsey pressured her. The EPA’s own inspector general, meanwhile, has said that the Agency’s press releases were “influenced” by the White House Council on Environmental Quality. According to the EPA’s Tina Kreischer, there was “extreme pressure from the White House” (Lindsey: MFR 04018180, 1/20/04; Whitman denied: CR, 555n13; “influenced”/“extreme pressure”: “EPA’s Response to the WTC Collapse,” 7, 16–, CR, 555n13).
49 9:55: CR, 325;
50 “The President”:
51 Card: White House transcripts of ints. of Andy Card for ABC, 8/12/02, CNN, 8/12/02, NBC, 8/15/02, CBS, 8/16/02;
52 Bush said: CR, 40, 464n212;
53 “inexcusable”:
54 “could not remain”: Kean & Hamilton, 265;
55 “The military”:
56 flickering TV:
57 “credible” threat/Armed guards: CR, 325, 554n1,
58 cell phones:
59 saluted: Spencer, 255–.
60 baseless scare: The Secret Service tracked down the source of the “threat” within hours, and concluded that the flap had arisen because of a watch officer’s misunderstanding. Even so, press secretary Fleischer would still be talking of the threat at a press briefing the next day—and describing it as having been “real and credible” (CR, 554n1).
61 “The American people”:
62 running backward: int. Dan Alcorn,
63 “We’re at war”:
64 “very much in control”:
65 took part: Sammon, 122;
66 “I’m not going”:
67 “tin-horn terrorist”:
68 “increasingly difficult”:
69 “The mightiest”:
70 “We will stand”: CNN, 9/12/01, Graham with Nussbaum, 100;
71 Bush address:
72 key officials: CR, 330;
73 al Qaeda/Taliban:
74 87 “You know”: The authors have here cited Clarke’s interview with
75 bed early:
76 He balked, etc.:
77 “Incoming plane!”: Spencer, 282, 279;
78 Ground Zero: DiMarco, 269–.
79 one more survivor: This was Genelle Guzman, who had worked for the Port Authority in the North Tower and was found in the same area as was Pasquale Buzzelli earlier. She suffered serious leg injuries, but recovered in the hospital (
80 “heaved”: Langewiesche, 72;
81 flames: Barrett & Collins, 247;
82 would burn: ABC News, 12/19/01.
Part II: DISTRUST AND DECEIT
CHAPTER 10
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“not a fringe”:
, 9/3/06;
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“no dependable”:
Matt Taibbi,
