WTC hit job | 911blogger.com

WTC hit job | 911blogger.com: "Dr. Julie Gerberding had something more important to take care of - to wit, a bureacratic revenge killing.

Perhaps thinking no one would notice on the eve of the Fourth of July weekend, Gerberding fired Dr. John Howard http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/John Howard as head of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health . This was payback, and the orders had to have come from the top, straight from U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt http://www.nydailynews.com/topics/Michael Leavitt .

Howard's offense? He was the single member of the Bush administration with the courage to tell the truth about the epidemic of illnesses suffered by 9/11 rescue and recovery workers. And he told the scientific and medical truth - no matter that his bosses wanted nothing to do with paying for health care for the sickened."