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He was a great leader during the 9/11 tragedy in NYC

But how great of a "leader" was he before the 9/11 attacks? What did he do to prepare for any future attacks? Are you aware that despite the reports that came from the first WTC attack in 1993, just before he became Mayor, that Giuliani never found it necessary to upgrade the communication systems for the NYPD and FDNY in order to allow them to communicate with each other? WTC 93 made it obvious that the WTC was a major target for attack. Why then did Giuliani have the $13 million emergency operations center for the entire city placed in the WTC (WTC7 - one of the buildings that went down on 9/11) on the 27th floor? He didn't place the Office of Emergency Managment - the city's emergency response department - at a cabinet level until AFTER 9/11.

May 19, 2004 9/11 Hearing testimony:
Giuliani's testimony came on the second of two days of public hearings at Manhattan's New School University.
On Tuesday, Commissioner John Lehman, a former U.S. Navy secretary in the Reagan administration, said that at the time of the attacks, city officials lacked clear lines of authority in case of a crisis and its emergency management plan merely "puts in concrete a severely dysfunctional system."
Lehman said the city's command, control and communication systems remain "a scandal" two-and-a-half years after the attacks.
"It's not worthy of the Boy Scouts, let alone this great city," he said to applause from spectators.
But former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik and former New York Fire Commissioner Thomas Von Essen disagreed sharply with that assessment. Von Essen called Lehman's complaint "outrageous."