FEMA knew a year and a half ago and hid it from Congress

"Indeed, the story of toxic levels of formaldehyde in the 120,000 trailers that FEMA supplied to Katrina and Rita evacuees -- and the agency's cover-up of the crisis -- is still unfolding. At a minimum, more than 5,000 internal emails, many made public on July 19 by the House Committee on Oversight and Government, reveal what committee chairman Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) calls "an official policy of premeditated ignorance."

For more than a year, Waxman and Rep. Charles Melancon (D-La.) had been demanding documents from FEMA on what the agency knew about formaldehyde in the trailers, with little result. Ultimately, the committee had to use its subpoena power to dislodge internal communications from the agency.

What the documents show is that FEMA knew about the formaldehyde problem a year and a half ago and engaged in a concerted effort to hide it from Congress, trailer residents, other federal agencies -- even its own field staff, which consistently raised the issue to higher ups. Fearing litigation, FEMA attorneys in Washington stopped the agency's field staff from admitting the problem, from testing trailers, even from relocating sick individuals who asked to be moved."
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same shit, same reason, different century....

remember when that smug bastard signed something in the Indian Treaty Room in the WH this year? like that means anything!

after all those people went through and then endanger them again.

Didn't Bushco just announce that the diabetes drug Avandia should stay on the market despite recent findings about increased heart attacks?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/27/health/27avandia.html?ex=1343188800&en=31df81f702166bbd&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Bushco doesn't care about people - government for special interests only.

and maybe other people will get as pissed off as we are and do something about it!

When enough people realize this, they will impeach this criminal