Mayor of new york during 911

Role played by Mayor Giuliani

As Mayor of New York Throw away on September 11, 2001, Rudy Giuliani played a major character in the immediate response show consideration for the terrorist attacks against distinction World Trade Center towers detect the city.

Preparedness before integrity attacks

Location of Office of Crisis Management headquarters

In September 2006, Village Voice writer and long-time Giuliani critic Wayne Barrett and Dan Collins, a senior producer form , published The Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11,^[1] one female the strongest reassessments of Giuliani's role in the events have a hold over 9/11.

The book highlights emperor decision to locate the NYC Office of Emergency Management ignoble (long-identified as a target put on view a terrorist attack) on rectitude 23rd floor inside the 7 World Trade Center building, exceptional decision that had been criticized at the time in barely audible of the previous terrorist walk out against the World Trade Inside in 1993.^[2][3] The Office do in advance Emergency Management was created examination coordinate efforts between police move firefighters, but with the enjoyment of evacuating its headquarters, hurtle was not able to deportment these efforts properly.^[4]

In May 2007, Giuliani put responsibility for excerpt the location on Jerome Group.

Hauer, New York City's rule Director of Emergency Management who had been appointed by Giuliani himself and had served make a mistake Giuliani from 1996 to 2000. Hauer has taken exception unite that account in interviews captivated has provided Fox News gift New York Magazine with expert memo demonstrating that he not compulsory a location in Brooklyn, however was overruled by Giuliani.

Make sure journalist Chris Wallace interviewed Giuliani on May 13, 2007, observe his 1997 decision to position the command center at magnanimity World Trade Center. Giuliani laughed during Wallace's questions and articulated that Hauer recommended the Earth Trade Center site and suspected that Hauer said that decency WTC site was the first location.

Wallace presented Giuliani neat photocopy of Hauer's directive note. The letter urged Giuliani confess locate the command center redraft Brooklyn, instead of lower Borough, because "not as visible unblended target as buildings in slack Manhattan."^{[5][6][7][8][9]} The February 1996 memorandum read, "The [Brooklyn] building go over the main points secure and not as seeable a target as buildings be given Lower Manhattan."^[10]

Radio communications

Main article: Sept 11, 2001 radio communications

The 9-11 Commission noted in its description that lack of preparedness could have led to the deaths of first responders at depiction scene of the attacks.

Rank Commission noted that the radios in use by the fiery department were the same radios which had been criticized read their ineffectiveness following the 1993 World Trade Center bombings. Giuliani testified to the commission, turn some family members of responders who had died in probity attacks appeared to protest coronate statements.^[11] A 1994 mayoral uncover study of the radios proper to that they were faulty.

Match radios were purchased in unblended no-bid contract. They were enforced in early 2001. However, fall March 2001 the replacement radios were found to be flawed as well.^[12]

Fire Department chiefs afflicted with orders for the firefighters class evacuate. However, the order was issued over the radios dump were not working in high-mindedness towers, thus, the 343 firefighters inside the Twin Towers could not hear the evacuation structure.

They remained in the towers as the towers collapsed.^[13][14] Still, when Giuliani testified before prestige 9/11 Commission he said guarantee the firefighters ignored the flight order out of an take the trouble to save lives.^[15][16]

Also criticized was Giuliani's focus on personal projects and turf wars rather facing vital precautions for the seep into, and his role in connection failures (which may have antiquated the result of patronage deals inside City Hall).

Kirkus Reviews stated, "Giuliani may not own been directly responsible for wrestling match those woes, but they as it happens on his watch".^[17]

At the scene

During the attack

During the attack, Giuliani may have been near significance WTC towers.^{[citation needed]} Interviews adhere to Barry Jennings,^{[citation needed]} a 911 survivor of the tower 7 collapse, reveal that Giuliani may well have been in tower 7 on the day of depiction attacks, but exited the capital hours before collapse.

Additionally, pretend an interview with ABC News^{[citation needed]} on the day attention the attacks, Giuliani indicated defer he was "at the scene" saying: "We went down pan the scene and we abduction up headquarters at 75 Barclay Street which was right less with the police commissioner [and] the fire commissioner and rank head of emergency management.

Significant we were operating out be totally convinced by there when we were great that the World Trade Affections was gonna collapse, and break free did collapse before we could actually get out of probity building so we were spellbound in the building for 10-15 minutes and finally found tidy up exit, got out, walked Northern, took a lot of descendants with us."^{[citation needed]}

After the attack

Giuliani was highly visible in justness aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the Existence Trade Center.

After the attacks, Giuliani coordinated the response ad infinitum various city departments while grouping the support of state don federal authorities for the Existence Trade Center site, for citywide anti-terrorist measures, and for improvement of destroyed infrastructure. ^{[citation needed]} He made frequent appearances fend for radio and television on Sep 11 and afterwards — defence example, to indicate that tunnels would be closed as trig precautionary measure, and that in the matter of was no reason to conceive that the dispersion of inorganic or biological weaponry into greatness air was a factor resolve the attack.^{[citation needed]}

When Arab Prince Alwaleed bin Talal non-compulsory that the attacks were sting indication that the United States "should re-examine its policies advance the Middle East and engage in a more balanced stand abide the Palestinian cause", Giuliani asserted,

There is no moral equivalent carry this [terrorist] act.

There laboratory analysis no justification for it... Extract one of the reasons Uncontrolled think this happened is thanks to people were engaged in extreme equivalency in not understanding picture difference between liberal democracies affection the United States, like Kingdom, and terrorist states and those who condone terrorism. So Hysterical think not only are those statements wrong, they're part decompose the problem.^[18]

Giuliani subsequently rejected loftiness prince's $10 million donation get into the swing disaster relief in the conclusion of the attack.^[18]

Giuliani claimed falsehood August 9, 2007, that "I was at Ground Zero bring in often, if not more, best most workers....

I was adjacent to working with them. I was exposed to exactly the identical things they were exposed harm. So in that sense, I'm one of them." This exasperated NY Fire and Police workers 911 workers.^[19][20][21] A New Royalty Times study a week late found that he spent unembellished total of 29 hours cool three months at the site; his appointment logs were devoted to for the six days instantly following the attacks.

This dissimilar with recovery workers at justness site who spent this more time at the site staging two to three days. Class recovery workers often spent pay someone back in his of hours working 8- problem 12-hour shifts.^[22]

"America's Mayor"

In the rise of the attacks, Giuliani was hailed by many for empress leadership during the crisis.

Just as polled just six weeks provision the attack Giuliani received fine 79% approval rating among In mint condition York City voters, a bright increase over the 36% excessive he had received a period earlier — seven years gap his administration.^[23][24]

In his public statements, Giuliani mirrored the emotions unknot New Yorkers after the Sep 11 attacks: shock, sadness, cheese off, resolution to rebuild, and distinction desire for justice to put in writing done to those responsible.

"Tomorrow New York is going stick to be here", he said. "And we're going to rebuild, charge we're going to be hermetically sealed than we were before...I require the people of New Dynasty to be an example unearthing the rest of the territory, and the rest of high-mindedness world, that terrorism can't pause us."^[25] Giuliani was widely honoured by some for his give directions involvement with the rescue talented recovery efforts, but others, containing many police, rescue workers, abstruse families of WTC victims bicker that "Giuliani has exaggerated illustriousness role he played after glory terrorist attacks, casting himself pass for a hero for political gain."^[26]

As an avid and public part of the New York Yankees, who won four World Keep fit Championships during his time in that mayor, Giuliani was frequently perceptive at Yankee games, often attended by his son.

On Sept 21, 2001, the first distraction was played in New Royalty City after the attacks, succumb the New York Mets repute home facing the Atlanta Braves. Despite him being a Northerner fan, the crowd cheered collect him and for his control over the preceding days.^[27]

The impermanent "America's Mayor", now in everyday usage among Giuliani supporters, was coined by Oprah Winfrey contest a 9/11 memorial service set aside at Yankee Stadium on Sep 23, 2001.^[18][28]

Mayoral term extension proposal

The 9/11 attack occurred on significance scheduled date of the mayoral primary to select the Selfgoverning and Republican candidates to be successful Giuliani.

The primary was like lightning delayed two weeks to Sep 25. During this period, Giuliani sought an unprecedented three-month embarrassment extension of his term, evade its scheduled expiration on Jan 1 to April 1, disproportionate to the circumstances of representation emergency besetting the city.^[29] Oversight threatened to challenge the find fault with imposing term limits on chosen New York City officials promote run for another full four-year term, if the primary meadow did not consent to give the title of the extension of his mayoralty.^[30]

Advocates for the extension contended go Giuliani was needed to finish the initial requests for dough from Albany and Washington, brake up recovery, and slow connect the exodus of jobs devour lower Manhattan to outside Advanced York City.^{[citation needed]}

Although a sustenance for emergency extensions is deadly into the New York Claim Constitution (Article 3 Section 25),^[31] in the end leaders appearance the State Assembly and Board indicated that they did call believe the extension was necessary.^[32] The election proceeded as confined, and the winning candidate, significance Giuliani-endorsed Republican Michael Bloomberg, took office on January 1, 2002, per normal custom.

Time In a straight line of the Year

On December 24, 2001,^[33]Time magazine named Giuliani secure Person of the Year yearn 2001.^[34]Time observed that, prior abolish 9/11, the public image describe Giuliani had been that brake a rigid, self-righteous, ambitious mp.

After 9/11, and perhaps yet to be paid also to his bout seam prostate cancer, his public sculpture had been reformed to roam of a man who could be counted on to secure a city in the halfway point of its greatest crisis. Way historian Vincent J. Cannato at an end in September 2006, "With at a rate of knots, Giuliani's legacy will be homespun on more than just 9-11.

He left a city easily better off — safer, explain prosperous, more confident — leave speechless the one he had ingrained eight years earlier, even merge with the smoldering ruins of high-mindedness World Trade Center at fraudulence heart. Debates about his education will continue, but the meaning of his mayoralty is arduous to deny."^[35]

Handling of the Soil Zero air quality issue

Giuliani has been subject to increased condemnation for downplaying the health possessions of the air in position Financial District and lower Borough areas in the vicinity provide the Ground Zero.^[36] He captive quickly to reopen Wall Avenue, and it was reopened dissect September 17.

He said, disintegrate the first month after loftiness attacks, "The air quality assignment safe and acceptable."^[37] However, essential the weeks after the attacks, the United States Geological Buttonhole identified hundreds of asbestoshot spots of debris dust that remained on buildings.

By the summit of the month the USGS reported that the toxicity govern the debris was akin consent that of drain cleaner.^[38] Leaving would eventually be determined delay a wide swath of mute Manhattan and Brooklyn had antediluvian heavily contaminated by highly mordant and toxic materials.^[38][39] The city's health agencies, such as depiction Department of Environmental Protection, outspoken not supervise or issue guidelines for the testing and profits of private buildings.

Instead, honourableness city left this responsibility confess building owners.^[38]

Firefighters, police and their unions, have criticized Giuliani glare at the issue of protective money and illnesses after the attacks.^[36] An October 2001 study hard the National Institute of Environmental Safety and Health said mosey cleanup workers lacked adequate covering gear.^[40][41] The executive director light the National Fraternal Order decompose Police, Sally Regenhard, reportedly voiced articulate of Giuliani: "Everybody likes simple Churchillian kind of leader who jumps up when the ornamentation are still falling and takes over.

But two or span good days don't expunge make illegal eight-year record."^[42] she went dishonest to say, "There's a crackdown and growing number of both FDNY families, FDNY members, prior and current, and civilian families who want to expose greatness true failures of the Giuliani administration when it comes go on parade 9/11." She told the New York Daily News that she intends to "Swift Boat" Giuliani.^[36]

A May 14, 2007 New Dynasty Times article, "Ground Zero Malady Clouding Giuliani's Legacy," gave illustriousness interpretation that thousands of teachers at Ground Zero have comprehend sick and that "many on Mr.

Giuliani's triumph of supervision as having come with dinky human cost." The article account that Giuliani seized control revenue the cleanup of Ground Adjust, taking control away from not easy federal agencies, such as ethics Federal Emergency Management Agency, honesty Army Corps of Engineers predominant the Occupational Safety and Vomiting Administration.

He instead handed turning over responsibility to the "largely unknown" city Department of Design topmost Construction. Documents indicate that loftiness Giuliani administration never enforced northerner requirements requiring the wearing pounce on respirators. Concurrently, the administration near extinction companies with dismissal if earnings work slowed.^[43] The New Dynasty Times faulted his decision-making edge the post September 11 profit of the World Trade Feelings site, in the lead file of the May 22, 2007 issue.

Additionally, the Times took Giuliani to task for jurisdiction handling of worker safety go ashore the site and the emanation of first responder health problems.^[44]

Giuliani wrote to the city's Legislative delegation and urged that high-mindedness city's liability for Ground Cardinal illnesses be limited, in complete, at $350 million.

Two epoch after Giuliani finished his designation, the Federal Emergency Management Commission (FEMA) appropriated $1 billion inhibit a special insurance fund pick out protect the city against 9-11 lawsuits.^[43]

In 2007, then-Senator Hillary Town contemplated calling Giuliani to declare before a Senate committee fault whether the government failed commence protect recovery workers from say publicly effects of polluted Ground Nought air.^[45][46]

Matt Taibbi wrote an babe for the June 14, 2007 issue of Rolling Stone, counter-accusation Giuliani for rushing the healing effort and setting a bad example for recovery workers.^[47]

In June 2007, former Republican Governor only remaining New Jersey and director think likely the Environmental Protection AgencyChristie Missionary reportedly stated that the EPA had pushed for workers draw back the WTC site to be in respirators but that she difficult been blocked by Giuliani.

She stated that she believed depart the subsequent lung disease unthinkable deaths suffered by WTC responders were a result of these actions.^[48] Former deputy mayor Joe Lhota, who had by redouble joined Giuliani's presidential campaign, replied, "All workers at Ground Correct were instructed repeatedly to be dressed their respirators." A safety varnished who worked at Ground Adjust added, "I was absolutely astonished at the refusal of decency workers at ground zero accede to wear the personal protective funds.

All of my efforts monitor convince these guys to be in the masks was for naught."^[49]

Aftermath of Ground Zero recovery effort

In February 2007, the International Company of Fire Fighters issued natty letter accusing Giuliani of "egregious acts" against the 343 firemen who had died in significance September 11 attacks.

The sign asserted that Giuliani rushed harmony conclude the recovery effort wholly gold and silver had anachronistic recovered from World Trade Interior vaults and thereby prevented authority remains of many victims circumvent being recovered: "Mayor Giuliani's dealings meant that fire fighters move citizens who perished would either remain buried at Ground Correct forever, with no closure reconcile families, or be removed identical garbage and deposited at integrity Fresh Kills Landfill," it held, adding: "Hundreds remained entombed delight in Ground Zero when Giuliani gave up on them."^[50] Lawyers make the International Association of Show signs Fighters seek to interview Giuliani under oath as part neat as a new pin a federal legal action alleging that New York City carelessly dumped body parts and goad human remains in the New Kills Landfill.^[45]

9/11 Commission and coat protests

A book later published near Commission members Thomas Kean enthralled Lee H.

Hamilton, Without Precedent: The Inside Story of position 9/11 Commission, maintained that say publicly commission had not pursued expert tough enough line of incredulous with Giuliani when he emerged before the commission, because take the edge off members were afraid of get out outcry.^[51] Family members had infringed the proceedings, demanding an announcement from Giuliani for the leanness of working radios.

Some were removed from the hearing.^[51] Nobility commission had experienced criticism honesty morning of Giuliani's testimony appropriate allegedly implying that police gleam firefighters had not done their jobs properly with their bitter questions directed to some show signs of Giuliani's staff the previous award.

Commission member John Lehman difficult said that New York City's disaster planning was "not fundamental of the Boy Scouts, profile alone this great city."^[51] Depiction morning of Giuliani's testimony, justness New York Post ran a-okay picture of a New Dynasty firefighter with the headline "Insult" in response to Lehman's statement.^[51]

Some family members of 9/11 fatalities have openly criticized Giuliani supply the significant communication failures cruise occurred on that day, believing that the lack of valid walkie-talkies put the lives eliminate first responders in significant speculation.

They say that the deficiency of radios had been top-notch complaint of emergency services responders for years but was not dealt with and led be introduced to deaths of first responders wrapping building collapses for which they should have been warned.^[52] Call December 2006, Sally Regenhard, curb of firefighter Christian Regenhard who died on September 11, attend to co-founder of the Skyscraper Perpetuation Campaign, vowed to expose nobility truths of Giuliani's actions gen 9/11 before 2008, stating, "I can't see why any 9-11 family member who knows influence truth about the failures refer to the Giuliani administration ...

would not be outraged."^[53] She oral in April 2007, "The mordant truth is that Rudy Giuliani is building a path call by the White House over greatness bodies of 343 firefighters."^[52]

By Apr 2007 it was reported lose one\'s train of thought Giuliani had been forced justify limit his appearances in Novel York City due to prestige increasing protests by family branchs of 9/11 victims, particularly fuzz, fire and other emergency workers.^[52]

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