Jerome Hauer knows Rudy Giuliani quite well, he served as the top anti-terrorism aide to the mayor for several years before September 11th. While Rudy keeps on running under his 'experience' during that horrific day in New York City, there are more and more reports of just how bad a mayor he was, both on September 11th and beforehand. Hauer knows what he is talking about here.
From The Telegraph:
Jerome Hauer, New York's emergency management director from 1996 to 2000, said Mr Giuliani was closely involved in locating the city's crisis control room in the World Trade Centre complex, even though it was a known terrorist target after the 1993 truck bomb attack which killed six people at the site.
The location proved disastrous in 2001 as the building was set ablaze in the collapse of the adjoining twin towers.
The condemnation by Mr Hauer, a leading US expert on biological and chemical terrorism, provides fresh ammunition to Mr Giuliani's foes, who want to undermine the widespread acclaim for his actions in the aftermath of al-Qaeda's attack on the towers. It follows similar criticism from the main firemen's union.
Giuliani came out swinging, saying that Hauer is bitter and playing politics, while asserting that it was his recommendation to place the emergency command center downtown. Too bad for Rudy that the evidence is in Hauer's favor. It is another defensive lie on the mayor's part. I'm sure he doesn't feel too bad about it, since lying and sacking people who get in his way is standard operating procedure for Rudy.
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