Giuliani: The Real Giuliani

New York City firefighters have already taken on Rudy Giuliani's record on public safety while he was the mayor of the New York City, and today Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films released a web clip with interviews about Giuliani's decision to put the emergency management station in the World Trade Center Buildings against the advice of his Director of emergency management.

Here's an exchange between Rudy Giuliani and Chris Wallace on Fox News.

You put the emergency response command center in the World Trade Center in 1997, even though your director of emergency management suggested — recommended that you not put it there because it had been a target in 1993. Why'd you do that?

GIULIANI: My director of emergency management recommended 7 World Trade Center, and that was...

WALLACE: I have got a copy right here of Jerry Hauer's directive to you. And there were meetings in which Jerry Hauer said that it's a bad idea. And the police chief, Howard Safir, said it was a bad idea.

GIULIANI: Jerry Hauer recommended that as the prime site and the site that would make the most sense, and he recommended it because...

In the short film here's what Jerry Hauer, Rudy Giuliani's own Director of emergency management had to say about that exchange.

It’s just a flat out lie. All the other options were taken away and we kept being pushed back towards 7 world trade center. It was very clear that the mayor was not going to go anywhere else but Lower Manhattan. …

He has no idea what he’s talking about. There was no virtual command center. We did not have a virtual capability outside of 7 World Trade Center.

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The more Rudy Giuliani talks the more he makes an ass out of himself. In case you missed this these are the facts:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/8/10/13347/3201

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DemocratKickingAss on September 6, 2007 at 10:48 PM

Ex right wing, what in the world does your comment have to do with Rudy Giuliani being a national disgrace? Yeah, Ron Paul may be against the Iraq war but he is still a Republican which means he can't be trusted on other important issues! Why not focus your energy on a Democrat who is the complete package? Someone who will end the war and still stick to true liberal values such as national health care. Hillary Clinton promised to end the Iraq if elected and I believe her, look at her last vote, she voted against giving Bush another blank check to fund the Iraq war with no exit date and not only that she will protect our social security and fight for national health care. Senator Obama forget it, I can see not voting for him in the primary because he threatened to attack Pakistan with force if he had to.

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DemocratKickingAss on September 6, 2007 at 10:54 PM

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