Giuliani Faces Investigation Of 9/11 Radios

[sabra]

Source: HuffingtonPost

In the midst of his presidential candidacy, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani now faces a looming government investigation into his handling of the radios used by firefighters on 9/11.

The investigation, which will examine how the FDNY ended up using faulty equipment during the terrorist attacks and why Giuliani gave a no-bid contract to Motorola for that equipment, has been endorsed by New York City Councilman Eric Gioia, chair of the city's oversight and investigations committee.

"I will do everything in my power to get answers, to get the truth," said Gioia, a Democrat. "These families deserve answers and really the entire city and our country deserve answers."

Calls for an investigation were first proposed by filmmaker Robert Greenwald who has documented Giuliani's handling of 9/11 in a series of shorts for Brave New Films. In The Real Rudy: Radios, Greenwald documents how radios used by the FDNY on 9/11 were the same ones that malfunctioned during the 1993 attack on the Twin Towers. When - eight years later - Giuliani finally purchased new communications equipment for $14 million from Motorola, it was never field-tested. A week later, the equipment was recalled after a firefighter's mayday went un-heard. Giuliani reissued the old batch of radios. And on 9/11 when a police helicopter warned that the North Tower could collapse, more than 120 firefighters remained inside.



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[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. Guiliani should be investigated

and there's more

[Acadia Blue]

5. ditto. He is associated with lots of criminals. Nasty past he has.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. If it can be proved that he knew, and refused to give funds to buy new radios

and indisputably those radios would have saved the lives of fire fighters and rescue workers, Giuliani would be responsible to a degree for their deaths.

[louis-t]

3. You can just hear his defense...

"This is politically motivated" or " Old news, blah, blah"

[BadGimp]

4. Judy Ruliani should be hung by his neck untill he is dead

After a fair trial of course. I hear Gitmo has some nice courtrooms.

[Acadia Blue]

6. He is an authoritarian and would be much worse than Bush/Cheney.

If that filth gets in, we can kiss our beloved Constitution goodby.

[burrowowl]

7. Good!

K&R!

[NYC]

8. About time.

[olddad56]

9. folks. wake up and smell the Starbucks, Rudy is teflon coated...

he is one of the Bushco Lieutenants. He is next in line for the throne. He is a good soldier.

[calimary]

10. YAY!!!

I hope this becomes laminated to him the way he's laminated 9/11 to himself. Scheming, bullying schmuck.