Free Republic

NEW YORK -- Many of the audio and written records of the Fire Department's response to the World Trade Center attacks should never be made public, the mayor's office says. In response to a lawsuit filed by The New York Times, the Bloomberg administration cited several reasons for wanting to keep secret the audiotapes of dispatchers' and firefighters' communications, and a department collection of firefighters' accounts of the attack. City lawyers and administration officials say a federal court in Virginia has barred them from releasing much of the material, citing its value in the case against terror suspect, Zacarias Moussaoui,...