9/11 Health Impact and Cover-Up Discussion

The people that

made them uncover that

and made it be released to the public are the people that are standing

behind me. They're the ones on, uh, the till. They are first responders.

They are families of loved ones that were lost. They are legislators.

They are legislative aides.

The city began covering their ass

three weeks in, in a memo. The memo is entitled

Legislative Alternatives

to the Fiscal Responsibility for 9/11.

These people had to fight,

sick and dying,

for years. And I'm not saying that the information may have changed

the outcomes, unfortunately, for their families, but I

guarantee you

it would not have been the struggle that it was to

get people to recognize that what they all knew

and what we all knew who live in downtown Manhattan, is that there

was poison in the air, and on the ground,

and in the windowsills, and in your air conditioners,

and covering your pets and your clothes, and it

stayed there for months.

Everyone knew.

And now it's very clear that the city knew as well.

And rather than take the steps to ameliorate the damage that that would

cause to its citizens and to the people

that were down there,

they instead covered it up to get back to business as usual.

But unfortunately, after 9/11, business will

never be usual again. And so,

uh,

I just wanna say that the people that are standing up here

are heroes.

They are-- And, and it's not just about the past.

It's not just about going into the files and relitigating

how we all knew what we knew was there. It's about the future.