By Wayne Barrett
Rudy Giuliani emerged from the smoke of 9-11 because the unquestioned hero of the day: America's Mayor, the daddy determine lets all depend on to be difficult, to be clever, to do the correct factor. In that doubtful time, it was once a convenience to understand that he was once at the scene and up to the mark, making the easiest of a dire situation.
But used to be he really?
Grand Illusion is the definitive record on Rudy Giuliani's position in 9/11—the precise tale of what occurred that day and the 1st clear-eyed evaluate of Giuliani's position earlier than, in the course of, and after the disaster.
While the photographs of a soot-covered Giuliani making his manner throughout the streets grew to become a great deal part of his own mythology, they have been additionally an emblem of 1 of his maximum disasters. The mayor's functionality, although marked via own braveness and beauty lower than hearth, phrases in place of work pursuing an completely wrongheaded method of the city's safety opposed to terrorism. Turning the mythology on its head, Grand Illusion unearths how Giuliani has revised his personal historical past, casting himself as prescient terror hawk while actually he ran his management as though terrorist threats easily didn't exist, too distracted through puppy initiatives and turf wars to take care of very important precautions.
Authors Wayne Barrett and Dan Collins additionally give you the first authoritative view of the aftermath of the Sept. 11 assaults, recounting the triumphs and missteps of the city's efforts to heal itself. With excellent new reporting concerning the sufferers, the villains, and the heroes, this can be an eye-opening reassessment of 1 of the pivotal events—and politicians—of our time.
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But neither spelled out the consequences of this loss like Farmer did, partly because the specifics are bizarrely both axiomatic and speculative. Examining the real-life costs of this lost command center is also a decidedly personal assignment of blame, since the siting was unquestionably a decision made by the hands-on mayor. Even Giuliani champions like Time called it “a mistake” to locate the command center on the 23rd floor of 7 WTC, part of a complex viewed long before 9/11 as one of the top terrorist targets in the world.
The 9/11 Commission did not apply the same deadly calculus to the destruction of the command center as it tried to do to the costs of the command and control debacle. But the commission’s senior counsel, John Farmer, cited a number of ways that an operating command center might have saved lives. If the center had been located elsewhere and thus able to remain operational that day, “I really think it would have made a difference. Maybe the failure to communicate among the agencies doesn’t happen that day because that thing is functioning.
An attack of sarin gas would require intense coordination of the Health, Police and Fire Departments. ” The Times’ Baker was the first to reveal just how far Giuliani’s description was from reality, and how undefined and disorganized the city’s command and control was on 9/11. ” As axiomatic as the Times considered that assessment, Rudy Giuliani brazenly challenged it when he testified before the commission almost two years later. And just as no one noticed the bizarre juxtaposition of his OEM boasts at the 9/11 hearing and the commission staff ’s OEM critique, the contrast between his command and control claims and the staff ’s simultaneous findings of disarray also passed unnoticed.