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kpete

(72,013 posts) Tue Feb 9, 2016, 10:25 AM Feb 2016

FLINT: “Now evidence is clearly pointing to a deliberate cover-up”

“Now evidence is clearly pointing to a deliberate cover-up,” Genesee Cty Public Health Dir said, 36 days before Snyder admitted Legionnaires

More than eight months before Gov. Rick Snyder disclosed a deadly Legionnaires' disease outbreak in the Flint area, federal health officials worried a lack of cooperation in Michigan could be hampering the public health response.

Thousands of pages of e-mails obtained by the Detroit Free Press through the Freedom of Information Act show increasing concern about the quality of the Flint's drinking water as tensions grew over a lack of coordination to combat the waterborne disease.

County health officials were warned for reaching out to federal experts for help while they struggled to persuade Flint city officials to provide needed information, the e-mails show. Others in e-mails wondered about ethical breaches and the possibility of a cover-up.

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By Dec. 5, Tamara Brickey, the Genesee County Health Department’s public health division director, said in an e-mail to other county health officials that “the state is making clear they are not practicing ethical public health practice.”

“Now evidence is clearly pointing to a deliberate cover-up,” Brickey wrote. “In my opinion, if we don’t act soon, we are going to become guilty by association.”

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/flint-water-crisis/2016/02/09/flint-e-mails-state-city-appear-unable-share-info/80028820/

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FLINT: “Now evidence is clearly pointing to a deliberate cover-up” (Original Post) kpete Feb 2016 OP

Deliberate. SamKnause Feb 2016 #1

Wow, that's kind of no duh 2pooped2pop Feb 2016 #2

Should I put on my shocked face? Kalidurga Feb 2016 #3

Snyder will resign and he will be charged malaise Feb 2016 #4

Would it have anything to do with piratizing Detroit? Octafish Feb 2016 #5

WJR MinM Feb 2016 #6

BTW MinM Feb 2016 #7

SamKnause

(13,110 posts)

1. Deliberate.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Feb 9, 2016, 10:33 AM

Feb 2016

Money for the corporations, poisoning and death for the people.

Jail these corrupt evil assholes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FEEL THE BERN

2pooped2pop

(5,420 posts)

2. Wow, that's kind of no duh

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Feb 9, 2016, 10:33 AM

Feb 2016

It's been pretty obvious to me. My question was " is that why they brought in the city planners? To enable the cover up?

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)

3. Should I put on my shocked face?

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Feb 9, 2016, 10:33 AM

Feb 2016

Seriously, of course there is a cover up and it's not just in Michigan. There are several southern states and several western states that have worse lead poisoning rates than Flint, what??????????? Yep I saw it in an article online.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/02/04/untold-cities-across-america-have-higher-rates-of-lead-poisoning-than-flint/

It wasn't this one, the one I saw had a map

and there is this article about Native Americans water supplies

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/navajo-water-supply-horrific-flint-cares-native-american/

but that wasn't the article either, it's important though.

I hope that like what happened in Ferguson, what happened in Flint causes a lot of people to raise a ruckus and get these problems cleared up. The government should absolutely not turn it's back on the most vulnerable of our citizens, poor children who live in areas with bad water delivery systems and housing with lead paint.

malaise

(269,157 posts)

4. Snyder will resign and he will be charged

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Feb 9, 2016, 10:34 AM

Feb 2016

Off to the greatest page

Octafish

(55,745 posts)

5. Would it have anything to do with piratizing Detroit?

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Feb 9, 2016, 10:37 AM

Feb 2016

You know, ripping off We the People for friends of Rick and Andy?

MinM

(2,650 posts)

6. WJR

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Feb 9, 2016, 10:53 AM

Feb 2016

WJR and no doubt the rest of the right-wing radio industrial complex here in Michigan has been desperately trying to spin this as a failure of low level government employees. It appears that the facts on the ground will continue to make these futile efforts to push that narrative even more absurd.

Canary in the Coal Mine

MinM

(2,650 posts)

7. BTW

Reply to MinM (Reply #6)

Wed Feb 10, 2016, 09:45 PM

Feb 2016

One of the main talking points on WJR was that Snyder was getting bad information from the DEQ...

@emptywheel 24 minutes ago

Snyder allegedly delayed admitting ELEMENTARY school had lead problems.
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2016/02/snyder_ordered_deq_to_withhold.html

@ronfonger

Snyder ordered DEQ to withhold Flint lead test results, emails claim http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2016/02

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