Compared to the fact that he helped thwart FEMA from conducting a REAL investigation of the 9/11 crime scene by supervising the illegal removal of the structural steel from the Twin Towers site. His appearance and deportment are distinctly reptilian. I'll bet cheney loves him.

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had absolutely no qualifications for the job in NYC. She is a rich power-grabber, playing at politics, with not a shred of of knowledge or ability,in the game way over her head. Just like the Bush administration.

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As a shipyard worker in the 1970's, at the time of the building of the World Trade Center, I was aware of the linking of asbestos to serious respiratory ailments, the production of the asbestos containing fire retardant sprayed on steel used for building, and passage of the asbestos law following the completion of the lower half of the south World Trade Center tower (the recent environmental concerns related to the dismantling of the Deutche Bank building to a large degree result from the greater toxicity of the debris blown into it from the south tower) . ... So I was appalled in the hours and days following 9/11, to watch as rescue workers were shown in nearly every television report working without protection from asbestos and other seriously toxic fiber and chemical substances emanating from “the pile” and over a wide radius from the World Trade Center site. Within one to three days of the tower collapse I called major television and radio news outlets in the New York City area, and the government agencies I felt should be assuming responsibility for worker welfare on the site, to voice my concerns. ... Imagine my "shock" when after identifying myself and explaining my background and reasons for concern to someone in the "New York City Mayor's Office", I was responded to in a tone that made it clear that there was "official awareness of the danger for workers", and told that, " ... We don't really need to be hearing about such things right now... We (the Mayor's Office) will be responding to such (worker safety) issues as the need arises."

In the light of Todd-Whitman's recent accusations regarding the City and Mayor's response to public safety issues as "public image" and "media" issues at that time, it would be most interesting (since many workers were later shown wearing paper masks) to know specifically what cartridge filters were issued to workers, firefighters, and police carrying respirators that were the "best possible" protection against airborne toxins available at that time, provided they were fitted with proper cartridges (?).

So many answerable questions remain unasked and unanswered regarding these events, for a media apparently lacking the will, and a public unwilling to demand answers.

Farley Andrews

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