This is another report about the air quality at Ground Zero right after 9-11. On this day of tribute, is there an ironic twinge to reports about how the Bush administration covered up risks?

Cahill's comments echo a report issued in August by the EPA inspector general, an internal watchdog on the agency. The inspector general concluded that under White House influence, the EPA issued misleading assurances that there was no health risk from air pollution after the attack.

t r u t h o u t - Ground Zero Air Quality Was 'Brutal' For Months To properly train and outfit workers with protective gear would have cost money. It seems to me that this was a case of penny-pinching that will come back to haunt the Bush administration.