Whistleblower reveals how government rushed to give all clear after East Palestine train derailment and says he was threatened when he asked why
Kroutil spent his career developing the ASPECT aircraft, a high-tech plane used to detect levels of chemical contamination in the air
He claims that the aircraft wasn't deployed for 5 days, which prevented it from collecting critical data. In addition, the plane turned off its chemical sensors over some creeks in East Palestine
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13417965/whistleblower-east-palestine-train-derailment-government.html
As Kroutil's fears over the derailment's response grew, the scientist said he was also taken aback by being told not to include the words 'East Palestine' from his communications
This may have been used as a loophole so that those communications wouldn't be included in a FOIA response about the derailment
Because of this, he decided to file his own FOIA request - which he said was quickly met by a threat.
'I was told that I’d be fired within 24 hours if I didn’t rescind my FOIA request,'
@LoriQuaid
They tried to say the ASPECT plane couldn't fly due to weather conditions. Problem there is, the weather was absolutely fine, that day. There's tons of video online from people posting about it; I even have some video as I'm less than 250miles away from where it happened. They fuckin lied about this from start to finish.