City and federal officials lied to the public about the safety of the air near Ground Zero after 9/11.
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“did the very best we could at the time with the knowledge we had”
BBC News New York releases 170,000 pages on the air at Ground Zero, and a 2001 memo warned City Hall of 35,000 claims ›
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“So to be fair to them, they only buried that information for 25 years,”
“People got sick because the leaders they trusted lied and told them they were safe to breathe in toxic air,”