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Giuliani’s 9/11 Response ‘Deeply Flawed’
Rudy Giuliani, one of the leading Republican presidential candidates, has worked hard to craft an image as a 9/11 hero at the center of New York City’s recovery and rebuilding after the terrorists attacks.
While Giuliani’s role certainly cannot be discounted, perhaps it is not as extensive or unblemished as his campaign would like us to believe. Today, The New York Timestook a long look at several specific emergency preparedness and 9/11 response incidents that Giuliani’s hand-picked choice to lead the city’s Office of Emergency Management, Jerome M. Hauer, says were quite different from what Giuliani and his campaign depict.
(Don’t forget the Fire Fighters union (IAFF) was one of the first groups to take Giuliani to task for some his claims and his handling of the city’s preparedness and 9/11 response.)
The Times writes:
As Rudolph W. Giuliani runs for president, his image as a chief executive who steered New York through the disaster of Sept. 11 has become a pillar of his campaign. But one former member of his inner circle keeps surfacing to revisit that history in ways that are unflattering to Mr. Giuliani: Jerome M. Hauer, New York City’s first emergency management director.
In recent days, Mr. Hauer has challenged Mr. Giuliani’s recollection that he had little role as mayor in placing the city’s emergency command center at the ill-fated World Trade Center….
And he has contradicted Mr. Giuliani’s assertions that the city’s emergency response was well coordinated that day, a point he made most notably to the authors of Grand Illusion, a book that depicts Mr. Giuliani’s anti-terrorism efforts as deeply flawed.
Click here to read the full article and here to read The Times editorial criticizing Giulani’s failure to require Ground Zero rescue and recovery workers to wear respirators to protect them from the dangerous dust and toxins. Click here to learn more about Giuliani and his stand on important working family issues on the AFL-CIO’s site, Working Families Vote 2008.
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this sounds like a case of sour grapes and monday morning quarterbacking
Rudy put on a great show,,,,why not,,,,,,,,he knew it was going to happen,,,,,,,,Bush bellowed through the bull horn,,,,,they were well aware of what was going down,,,,,,,least of all the twin towers .. when the truth finally emerges Bushm and Rudy both should be hung.
I know that the firefighters and other first responders of 9/11 are not supporting Rudy Gulliani due to his obvious disregard for their safety. Many of them have become ill with problems relating to 9/11. I don’t think Gulliani did anything above and beyond what he should have done and he most certainly failed in some areas. Just ask the firefighters.