Giuliani Blames Aide for Putting Emergency Command Center in WTC7

[NYCGirl]

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/05/guiliani_blames_aide_for_poor_emergency_planning.html#more

"Jerry Hauer recommended that as the prime site and the site that would make the most sense," Giuliani claimed this week on Fox News Sunday. "He recommended that site as the site that would be the best site. It was largely on his recommendation that that site was selected."

Giuliani has nursed a grudge against Hauer ever since the latter defied him and endorsed Democrat Mark Green in the race to succeed him as mayor. "You're done," Giuliani told Hauer ominously on the phone.

"I thought for a number of reasons that Brooklyn was the better location," says Hauer. He provided New York with a copy of his February 1996 memo to First Deputy Mayor Peter Powers recommending the Metro Tech facility in Brooklyn as his preferred site for the command center. "The building is secure and not as visible a target as buildings in Lower Manhattan," the memo says.

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"Rudy's getting a lot of heat for the decision," Hauer said. "He's trying to run on his homeland-security and national-security background, and if you start peeling back the skin on the errors he made when he was mayor, you take away a lot of the basis for his candidacy." Hauer added: "I feel sad that he would betray somebody that had served him loyally in the past, and I'm angry, too. But when you get to know Rudy, you know that this is the kind of thing he does. That's just his personality."

[Stephanie]

1. Cool!

Who's he going to blame for the malfunctioning radios? The diesel tanks? The lies about the air quality?

And while we're at it, what about the serial adultery (someone please interview Cristine Lategano). The racist police policies? The criminal business partner?

[LSK]

10. I heard yesterday some GOP PR person say Guiliani was a terror expert

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[louis-t]

2. Rudy's taking public speaking lessons from bush.

"He recommended that site as the site that would be the best site."
Sheeesh!

[no_hypocrisy]

3. The Buck Stops Here.

Rudy ain't no Harry Truman.

[Rosemary2205]

6. No, it stops anywhere BUT here.

you are correct. Rudi is no Truman. But then it seems none of the Republicans are...

[Jim Warren]

4. Hey Hauer

There's a bus leaving at 5 o'clock, be under it.

[Hubert Flottz]

5. Nothing is EVER any of these republican's fault except for the

fact that they all are surrounded by "Aides" who are ALWAYS inept and stupid.

[Straight Shooter]

7. The so-called "party of personal responsibility" never accepts responsibility.

When Clinton was president, did everyone point the finger at someone else and say, "It's their fault"?

Hell, no.

When it comes to moral leadership, Repubs have nothing to stand on.

[LSK]

8. so Aides make the final decision in Guiliani administrations?

[lisa58]

9. What an ass...

...that's a good explanation?

[MadBadger]

11. Reminds me of Gonzo. Everybody else makes all the critical decisions.

[eleny]

12. Only an idiot would have taken that advice