Silence Is Deafening in Bridge Report
By JIM DWYER, NYT
MARCH 27, 2014
The original plans for the George Washington Bridge called for its two mighty towers, each 60 stories high, to be clad with granite facing, but that was deferred to save money. To this day, the steelwork is as bare as when the towers rose above the Hudson in the late 1920s.
There was no shortage of veneer on Thursday when a corporate lawyer, Randy M. Mastro, hired by Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, presented a report on the intentional creation of traffic jams at the bridge in September.
Practically the first words out of Mr. Mastro’s mouth were a description of the private lawyers who worked on the report as “a team of professional, former federal prosecutors with nearly 50 years of government experience and many, many internal investigations.”
He apparently liked how those credentials sounded, so he repeated versions of them twice more during the news conference, like a man slapping successive coats of lacquer on plywood.
It wasn’t enough. None of the former prosecutors spoke to the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, David Samson, whose emails show his raging against a port official who had brought the traffic jam scheme to an end.
(More Here.)
MARCH 27, 2014
The original plans for the George Washington Bridge called for its two mighty towers, each 60 stories high, to be clad with granite facing, but that was deferred to save money. To this day, the steelwork is as bare as when the towers rose above the Hudson in the late 1920s.
There was no shortage of veneer on Thursday when a corporate lawyer, Randy M. Mastro, hired by Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, presented a report on the intentional creation of traffic jams at the bridge in September.
Practically the first words out of Mr. Mastro’s mouth were a description of the private lawyers who worked on the report as “a team of professional, former federal prosecutors with nearly 50 years of government experience and many, many internal investigations.”
He apparently liked how those credentials sounded, so he repeated versions of them twice more during the news conference, like a man slapping successive coats of lacquer on plywood.
It wasn’t enough. None of the former prosecutors spoke to the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, David Samson, whose emails show his raging against a port official who had brought the traffic jam scheme to an end.
(More Here.)
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