[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, SECRECY: Camp Lejeune (NC) redaction testimony

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ex-Marine Jerry Ensminger calls for 'uncensored truth' about Camp  
Lejeune's contaminated water


By Martha Waggoner
Associated Press/Fayetteville Observer
March 14, 2012

RALEIGH - The retired Marine who believes contaminated water at Camp  
Lejeune caused his young daughter to die of leukemia told a U.S.  
Senate committee Tuesday that both science and victims will suffer if  
the military wins its fight to delete information from reports about  
the water.

The federal agency investigating the contamination "estimates that as  
many as 1 million people were exposed to horrendous levels of  
carcinogenic chemicals through their drinking water at Camp Lejeune,"  
retired Marine Master Sgt. Jerry Ensminger of Elizabethtown told the  
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. "These people need the uncensored  
truth concerning their exposures so they can be more vigilant about  
their and their family's health."

...

His testimony was part of a hearing about the larger issue of the  
public's right to know and the protection of information about  
critical infrastucture. The committee's chair, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D- 
Vt., chose to discuss the subject during National Sunshine Week,  
which is dedicated to marking the importance of freedom of  
information laws.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2012/03/14/1163833?sac=fo.military

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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