Soon Giuliani will unveil his "official" version of his bio. He is uncritically examined by most of the MSM; in fact, I would venture to say that he is given a free pass. I want to set the record straight.
He constantly makes statements that are flat out lies and is not challenged on them. His handling pre-,during, and post-9/11 was abysmal and contributed to the deaths of first responders and Ground Zero workers. He also continues to consort with known felons and pedophile priests.
There are so many items to chose from. I will start with some 9/11 myths Giuliani propagates.
Big Lie: His director of Emergency Management, Jerome Hauer, chose the location of the Office of Emergency Management command center on the 23rd floor of 7 World Trade Center (WTC). This command center was supposed to be the nerve center of the execution of responses to, well, emergencies such as what happened on 9/11. It was fueled with large diesel tanks which contributed to the building's meltdown. It was located in the WTC despite the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and constant threats that the WTC was a target of terrorists.
Giuliani laughed when Chris Wallace interviewed him on May 13, 2007 about his 1997 decision to locate the command center in the WTC. He claimed that Hauer chose that site. Wallace then produced a letter from Hauer urging Giuliani to locate the command center in Brooklyn rather than the WTC because it was "not as visible a target as buildings in lower Manhattan." No response. Remember, this is Chris Wallace of Fox News revealing Giuliani to be a liar. News Corporation is a client of Giuliani Partners.
Another Big Lie, highlighting Giuliani's incompetence which may have led to unnecessary deaths: Fire Department radios in use during the first WTC attack in 1993 didn't work. A 1994 mayoral study indicated that they didn't work in general. The mayor's office put out a no-bid contract and new radios were implemented in 2001. In March 2001 those radios were found to be faulty, too.
After the planes flew into the Twin Towers on 9/11 Fire Department chiefs issued an evacuation order to firefighters. The order was issued over these non working radios. The firefighters didn't hear the evacuation orders because their radios didn't work, so they remained in the buildings as they collapsed. However, when Giuliani testified before the 9/11 Commission, he claimed that the firefighters ignored the evacuation orders in order to save more lives.
I don't like the fact that Giuliani is given a free ride. I think he's dangerous and may well be the Republican presidential nominee. I will continue to point out his true nature as proven by his actions, not his words.
For this diary I used sources from the New York Times, the Village Voice, Wikipedia and my own research and synthesis.