Ben Chevat
Role at the time: Executive director of 9/11 Health Watch
Defended or excused
Responding to
Zohran Mamdani administration's release of post-9/11 air-quality and health records
"begins to answer the question"
Why we used this label
Supports disclosure. Classification is limited to the disclosure decision.
City Hall transcript: September 8 post-9/11 records announcement (opens in a new tab)Speaker sections: Jon Stewart; Tom Hart; Ben Chevat; Jerry Nadler; Carolyn Maloney; Gale Brewer
Official transcript, with separately identified speakers. Praise concerns disclosure, not every policy of the mayor. The date is known; noon UTC represents a date-only placeholder, not the event's exact time. Later releases were announced plans.