Nadler, today's guest on News Talk Online on Paltalk.com, says the reason the government is responsible is that people were misinformed about the quality of the air in lower Manhattan after the attacks.
"Christie Whitman lied," Nadler says, referring to then-Environmental Protection Agency boss' assertions that the air was safe to breath.
He's introduced legislation that would not only cover their medical expenses but also the lost wages of 9/11 victims.
Nadler, who is a member of the House Judiciary Committee, also believes Pres. Bush has committed impeachable offenses. But says he understands why committee chairman John Conyers (D-NY) hasn't put forward articles of impeachment.
Nadler says it's nearly impossible to impeach in the House and then successfully try in the Senate a sitting president. But he says he's introducing legislation establishing a special prosecutor to investigate future presidents who may violate federal law.
He also wants to limit the pardoning power of presidents. By not permitting them to pardon anyone near the end of their terms, ensuring political accountability. And prohibiting them from pardoning members of their own administrations. But this, he says, would take a constitutional amendment.
2 comments:
Nadler is way too liberal for me, but that doesn't matter, because he is doing the right thing, trying to force the government into taking care of people who still to this day and for the rest of their lives, face sickness from the 9/11 attacks.
I remmember President Bush standing on the ruins of Ground Zero with the firefighters with a megaphone at his mouth pledging to get those who attacked New York City on 9/11. This president who declared you are either with us or against us seemed to be with the first responders and other victims in New York. But his rhetoric and image then aside, the truth is, he's really been against the victims of 9/11. Compoundng what Osama bin Laden started.
I loved what the person above me had to say. That person was spot on.
Perhaps Bush should take the megaphone away from his mouth and put it to his ear so that he can hear first responders say, "we are sick, we are dying!"
Sylvia_Lovejoy
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