"No New Yorker is privy to as many secrets of the dead as Dr. Charles S. Hirsch. During nearly two decades as New York City’s chief medical examiner, he has quietly overseen autopsies on more than 100,000 people, hoping to learn something more about the way they lived, and why they died.
After a long run marked by few major controversies, Dr. Hirsch, 70, now finds his objectivity and independence being questioned because of his review of a single autopsy — on the body of James Zadroga, 34, a New York City police detective who died in New Jersey last year. The Zadroga family had hoped he would agree with the Ocean County medical examiner’s finding that the detective’s death was linked to ground zero dust, which would add his name to the official list of victims of the 9/11 attack.
But last month Dr. Hirsch shocked the Zadroga family and others with his conclusion, “with certainty beyond doubt,” that the material in Detective Zadroga’s lungs was not dust from the trade center but ground up pills he had injected into his veins.
[...] the police union, members of Congress and others have raised doubts about his ability to make such a determination by himself. At the heart of their criticisms lies a single question: how could the same tissue samples, autopsy slides and medical records lead different forensic pathologists to radically different conclusions?
...Certainty is an elusive quality in science. Dr. Gregory J. Davis, a University of Kentucky professor who is chairman of the forensic pathology committee of the Congress of American Pathologists, said that “certainty beyond doubt” was not a phrase he had ever used.
[...]Dr. Hirsch’s determinations about Detective Zadroga sharply conflicted not only with the conclusions drawn in the Ocean County autopsy but with the findings of other experts. A former New York City medical examiner, Dr. Michael M. Baden, examined the autopsy slides and said he was convinced that trade center dust had killed Detective Zadroga. The Police Pension Board in 2004 linked Mr. Zadroga’s illness to the dust when it approved a disability pension for him. And the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund concluded in 2004 that he had been harmed by the dust and gave him a substantial monetary award.
Detective Zadroga was at ground zero in the weeks immediately after 9/11, though it is not clear exactly where he worked or how many hours he remained on the site. His medical records show that he was sickened by his work at ground zero.
Dr. Hirsch’s findings about Detective Zadroga have generated controversy in part because many cases involving ground zero workers may have to be reviewed if the workers are to be included on the 9/11 victims list. The 9/11 victims’ fund gave more than 1,300 ground zero workers the same kind of injury award Detective Zadroga received, opening the door for future claims. Similarly, more than 175 police officers and 725 firefighters have received disability pensions for illnesses related to the trade center. And more than 20,000 workers have registered with the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board in case they become sick in the future.
Several members of New York’s Congressional delegation said they did not think Dr. Hirsch should have the power to decide whether deaths were linked to 9/11. This month, they urged Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to create a panel of independent medical experts. But the mayor rejected the proposal.
The Health Subcommittee of the U.S. House's Committee on Energy and Commerce will be holding a hearing this morning at 10am to examine the health effects left by the disintegration of the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001.
The government spin will first be presented by John Howard of the Centers for Disease Control.
The second panel will consist of:
John Vinciguerra, FDNY (ret.)
Iris G. Udasin, M.D., New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
This 100-minute edition of Total Information Radio aired on Revere Radio Network Monday night. Highlights:
Hear actor/lecturer tell Gary Welz WPIX he saw an airplane hit the World Trade Center, a story he has since retracted. Hear another "9/11 eyewitness" who appears to be Welz in disguise.
Callers!
The last lost BEATLES track? Samarkhand Mystery Tour
Peggy Carter of NYC911truth with an update ongoing 9/11 litigation, and announcing an upcoming 9/11 truth video installation by avant-garde artist Nico Haupt.
Excerpts of and commentary on the Congressional hearing examining the Environmental Protection Agency's pronouncements on 9/11 air quality.
Killtown offers thoughts on Gary Welz and 9/11 censorship.
Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subc. Hrng. on due process violations and EPA control of post 9-11 air quality in New York City. Christine Todd Whitman, Former Administrator, EPA; Eileen McGinnis, Former Chief of Staff to EPA Administrator; John Henshaw, Former Administrator, OSHA; Samuel Thernstrum, Former Member, White House Council on Environmental Quality. 2141 RHOB. -----
The hearing is scheduled to be broadcast & webcast live on C-SPAN Radio and C-SPAN 3
An oversight hearing on EPA's actions regarding air quality around Ground Zero was held today on Capitol Hill. Senators and witnesses ignored the elephant in the room: the air quality was so bad because the towers were pulverized, "dustified" if you will -- something only possible via highly advanced classified weapons systems.
The hearing was led by Senate Environment & Public Works Subcmte. Chair Sen. Hillary Clinton. Clinton's record in Congressional cover-ups dates back to her time on staff of the Watergate hearings in the early 70s. Among the witnesses today, James Connaughton, Chairman of the White House's Council on Environmental Quality.
Christine Whitman, EPA chief during 9/11, will testify next week.
The responders are under control of Mt. Sinai Hospital, which runs the federal "monitoring" program of the first responders. Note the way the injured parrot lines about asbestos and chemical interaction rather than confronting the leukemia clusters (minimuke radiation signal) nor dustified steel.
I hope you all get a chance to watch the 9/11 responders on "The View" on ABC @11.00AM this Wednesday the 25th. One of those responders will be Vito Valenti, a 9/11 volunteer, sick with fibrosis of the lungs and needs a double lung transplant. Vito also sits on the board of directors at the FealGood Foundation. I can only hope Rosie and the others do the right thing for these three heroes that day. Please support these brave souls, Bonnie Giebfried, Alex Sanchez and Vito, and the FealGood foundation.
Thank you and God bless you all.
John Feal "Lets make America great again, together" -----
Do you watch ER? Last night’s episode addressed the serious health issues that 911 1st responders are having. "World Trade Center Cough", leukemia etc. Only other time I’ve heard of it is from you!
its real and true we will have someone on this week talking about the numbers the illness beyond tragic -----
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From the U.S. House's officIal committee MEETIng schedule via house.gov for Monday, June 25, 2007: 
An oversight hearing on EPA's actions regarding air quality around Ground Zero was held today on Capitol Hill. Senators and witnesses ignored the elephant in the room: the air quality was so bad because the towers were pulverized, "dustified" if you will -- something only possible via highly advanced classified weapons systems.
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