But one of the standout facts of the piece is touced upon be Steve Benen:
It’s Lie #3: Giuliani doesn’t deserve the blame for putting the city’s emergency-command center in the World Trade Center, an obvious, and once-attacked, terrorist target. The former mayor was warned, in writing, about the inherent flaws in the choosing the site, and was offered a better and more effective alternative, but Giuliani moved forward anyway. As Barrett explained, “The 1997 decision had dire consequences on 9/11, when the city had to mobilize a response without any operational center.”
So, why is it, exactly, that Giuliani picked the WTC site? The mayor personally established a specific standard: he had to be able to walk to the command center from his office. (”I’ve never seen in my life ‘walking distance’ as some kind of a standard for crisis management,” said Lou Anemone, the highest-ranking uniformed officer in the NYPD. “But you don’t want to confuse Giuliani with the facts.”)
There is, however, an explanation for the walking-distance standard.
The 7 WTC site was the brainchild of Bill Diamond, a prominent Manhattan Republican that Giuliani had installed at the city agency handling rentals. When Diamond held a similar post in the Reagan administration a few years earlier, his office had selected the same building to house nine federal agencies. Diamond’s GOP-wired broker steered Hauer to the building, which was owned by a major Giuliani donor and fundraiser. When Hauer signed onto it, he was locked in by the limitations Giuliani had imposed on the search and the sites Diamond offered him. The mayor was so personally focused on the siting and construction of the bunker that the city administrator who oversaw it testified in a subsequent lawsuit that “very senior officials,” specifically including Giuliani, “were involved,” which he said was a major difference between this and other projects.
Giuliani’s office had a humidor for cigars and mementos from City Hall, including a fire horn, police hats and fire hats, as well as monogrammed towels in his bathroom. His suite was bulletproofed and he visited it often, even on weekends, bringing his girlfriend Judi Nathan there long before the relationship surfaced. He had his own elevator.
Yes, it’s as bad as it sounds.
For the city, this meant that on 9/11, the NYC make-shift command center didn’t exist until seven hours after the attack. As for Giuliani’s poor judgment, the most rational conclusion is that he put his center in the wrong place because he was creating a “convenient love nest.”
Stickman
It wasn't just Giuliani's C&C that was in WTC 7. The IRS, CIA, DoD, SEC, FBI and Secret Service all had field offices in WTC 7.
salafibrigades
Stickman
Quote: Originally posted by salafibrigades
Great sequence.
NIST still hasn't come out with its final report. They have no choice but to go with an inferno engulfing the entire building, but as those videos prove, there was no massive fire engulfing the building.
jigzaw
Snoopyrules
"See where the white smoke is, see this thing leaning like this, It's definately going to fall, there's no way to stop it"
"The structual integrity is not there"
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atomizer
I think we're off-topic here, if I may be so bold. The compelling, and indeed the most disturbing aspect of this post was the very idea of a Giuliani 'lovenest'. How much more heinous could such a thing get? A nude or cross-dressed Giuliani wearing socks suspenders, on the make, possibly in a threesome with Barney Kerrick, going to town with some fifty-year-old lobbyist for Pfizer or Farmer's Fund. That hunchbacked romeo makes fucking Nosferatu the vampyre look like George frigging Clooney. Yipes.
jigzaw
Oh my god, a politician has sex with a woman in his place of work... he must not be fit for the presidency!!!!!
Richard Wagner
Reed Rothchild
Come on now, all of our high profile elected officials are entitled to at least one super secret taxpayer, supplied, on the down low fuck pad. Right?
NC-Stern-Mark
Quote: Originally posted by atomizer I think we're off-topic here, if I may be so bold. The compelling, and indeed the most disturbing aspect of this post was the very idea of a Giuliani 'lovenest'. How much more heinous could such a thing get? A nude or cross-dressed Giuliani wearing socks suspenders, on the make, possibly in a threesome with Barney Kerrick, going to town with some fifty-year-old lobbyist for Pfizer or Farmer's Fund. That hunchbacked romeo makes fucking Nosferatu the vampyre look like George frigging Clooney. Yipes.
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