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9/11: Book Reassesses Giuliani's Role
MSNBC - Newsweek ^ | Sept 11, 2006 | Jennifer Barrett

Posted on 03/19/2007 9:10:53 AM PDT by George W. Bush

9/11: Book Reassesses Giuliani's Role

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In what ways?
The dumbest decision he made was to put the [city’s emergency] command center in the World Trade Center even though his principal security advisers urged him to put it elsewhere. His own emergency-management director, Jerry Hauer, wanted it to go where [current New York City Mayor Michael] Bloomberg has now put it: in Brooklyn ... If he had, he could have managed the crisis much more capably ...

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There’s also a whole chapter about radios. It took until March of 2001 for the fire department to come up with new radios. And the radios failed in the first week and had to be withdrawn. But they could have been reconfigured ...

Giuliani took office in January 1994, not long after the [first] World Trade Center bombing. Wasn’t there pressure on him to prevent another attack?
Everyone agrees that the question of terrorism never came up in selection of a police commissioner, which began not long after the attack. A water main broke in the first month of [Giuliani’s] administration, and he was more concerned with how the city responded to that. ...

...Also, there are enormous ways the police department has changed now. ... There were 16 or 17 detectives assigned to [the FBI's] Joint Terrorism Task Force when Giuliani took office, and when he left office in 2001 there were still 16 or 17 officers assigned. ...

Like?
No one has done anything about those who are above a fire line in a high-rise building.

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(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 911; giuliani; wtc
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An interview with one of the writers of a book about shortcomings of emergency preparedness under the Giuliani administration.
1 posted on 03/19/2007 9:11:01 AM PDT by George W. Bush
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To: Spiff; narses; Liz

Some good quotes and info here in the article.


2 posted on 03/19/2007 9:12:02 AM PDT by George W. Bush
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To: George W. Bush

The drive-by hits on Rudy are starting. Obviously, they consider him to be the most formidable candidate.


3 posted on 03/19/2007 9:13:11 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of News)
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To: LS

"Obviously, they consider him to be the most formidable candidate."

No, they consider him to be the one who will generate the most news interest, just like they did with anna nicole.


4 posted on 03/19/2007 9:14:31 AM PDT by flashbunny (<--- Free Anti-Rino graphics! See Rudy the Rino get exposed as a liberal with his own words!)
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To: LS

So, you're saying none of this is true?


5 posted on 03/19/2007 9:14:48 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it! ..Anybody want a peanut.....)
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To: showme_the_Glory

Are you saying what I said was untrue? Notice they aren't sliming Duncan Hunter or Sam Brownback. No need. They can't win.


6 posted on 03/19/2007 9:15:48 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of News)
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To: George W. Bush

Post Season Armchair Quarterbacking.


7 posted on 03/19/2007 9:16:13 AM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: George W. Bush
The dumbest decision he made was to put the [city’s emergency] command center in the World Trade Center even though his principal security advisers urged him to put it elsewhere. His own emergency-management director, Jerry Hauer, wanted it to go where [current New York City Mayor Michael] Bloomberg has now put it: in Brooklyn ...

This is an excellent point, and one that was made well before 9/11 and then again in the aftermath.

The Twin Towers had alreasy been hit once - maybe he figured lightning never strikes twice. That must have been it, because putting the emergency command center smack dab in the middle of one of the city's largest targets was a really dumb idea.

8 posted on 03/19/2007 9:16:15 AM PDT by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: George W. Bush

They'll take their best shots, and Rudy will still be standing.


9 posted on 03/19/2007 9:17:07 AM PDT by veronica ('My 80% ally is not my 20% enemy.' ........Rudy reminds us what Ronald Reagan said.)
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To: LS
Notice they aren't sliming Duncan Hunter or Sam Brownback. No need. They can't win.

Not to mention the timing. I suspect a vast left wing conspiracy is starting.

10 posted on 03/19/2007 9:19:35 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: George W. Bush

So this book came out just at the right time, when Giuliani's name is being mentioned as a candidate?
So MSNBC decided to promote the book just at the right time?
It's obvious that Giuliani is seen as a threat by the fascist left and they are going to mobilize their forces (media, dems) to torpedo his candidacy.


11 posted on 03/19/2007 9:20:26 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: mtbopfuyn
Not to mention the timing. I suspect a vast left wing conspiracy is starting.

I suspect this will be the preferred tactic of the Rudy boosters when confronted with inconvenient facts. It was extremely stupid of Rudy to have the emergency management center in the WTC. He also failed to upgrade emergency radios during his long tenure leading up to 9-11.

Throw in his pushing of Bernie Kerik for the most important anti-terror job in the country, and you have a guy who truly does not the subject seriously.

12 posted on 03/19/2007 9:21:59 AM PDT by dirtboy (Duncan Hunter 08)
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To: LS

"The drive-by hits on Rudy are starting. Obviously, they consider him to be the most formidable candidate."



It does get tiresome seeing that line on every thread about every article that is critical about any of the candidates.


13 posted on 03/19/2007 9:22:06 AM PDT by ansel12 (America, love it ,or at least give up your home citizenship before accepting ours too.)
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To: George W. Bush
Why surprise! Looks like the arch "conservatives" of the Free Republic Always Whining Caucus are now pushing the PR from Hillary's Campaign War Room!

Makes you wonder just who the Always Whining Freepers really work for?
14 posted on 03/19/2007 9:23:23 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (If you will try being smarter, I will try being nicer.)
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To: LS

I thought most was true also.


15 posted on 03/19/2007 9:24:28 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it! ..Anybody want a peanut.....)
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To: LS
From MSNBC. It's coming together now.


16 posted on 03/19/2007 9:26:06 AM PDT by rdb3 (Poor fella. He has no idea...)
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To: MNJohnnie
Makes you wonder just who the Always Whining Freepers really work for?

Every time we post one of these, George Soros mails us a check for $1000. Want in on the action?
17 posted on 03/19/2007 9:27:14 AM PDT by George W. Bush
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To: showme_the_Glory

Try reading Steven Brill's "After." I think you'll have a somewhat different view . . . or maybe not, since it seems you don't care for Rudy regardless of the record.


18 posted on 03/19/2007 9:31:19 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of News)
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To: ansel12

Just because something is tiresome doesn't mean it isn't potentially true. The fact is, the drive-bys will attempt to take out whoever they perceive is the greatest threat to Hillobama.


19 posted on 03/19/2007 9:32:06 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of News)
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To: highball

But he's a strong leader, and he doesn't back down. So it doesn't matter that people told him it was stupid, the important thing is that, since he didn't agree with them, he belittled them and stuck to his guns and left the command center right where it was.

And his success on 9/11 shows that he was correct. After all, if the command center had been in Brooklyn and had been intact, we wouldn't have film of Rudy running around that morning trying to find a place to set up a temporary center, and he wouldn't be known as America's Mayor now.


20 posted on 03/19/2007 9:32:59 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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