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Dust and Deception: "Last week a quietly scathing report by the inspector general of the Environmental Protection Agency confirmed what some have long suspected: in the aftermath of the World Trade Center's collapse, the agency systematically misled New Yorkers about the risks the resulting air pollution posed to their health. And it did so under pressure from the White House."

Now why might they have done this? Krugman surmises that perhaps it had something to do with not actually wanting to give the $20B (error corrected) in emergency aid that Bush had promised to NYC. Indeed, Don Nickles (R-Flat Place) and Phil Gramm (R-Third Circle of Hell) started trying to cut the appropriation before the (toxic) dust had even settled. It would have been much harder to do that if the media had been reporting that after everything else, NYC was having to deal with toxic dust from the crash site.