Thousands of newly released documents about water contamination at Camp Lejeune add to the evidence that the military long knew about tainted tap water blamed for deaths and illnesses among Marines and their families, and that officials covered up the information for years, a North Carolina congressman said Friday. On Thursday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., released more than 8,500 Department of Defense documents relating to the water contamination that continued at the base for decades. The release came the same week the Senate approved a bill to provide health care for Marines and their relatives who suffered because of the contamination.
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Jerry Ensminger, a retired Marine whose daughter became sick and died said he believes the Marines knew the base residents would move on and assumed that if they got ill, they wouldn’t connect their health to the contaminated water.
“They weren’t counting on one angry parent and the Internet,” he said.