Giuliani Faces Investigation Of 9/11 Radios

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.

"To know that we had failing radios in 1993 and did virtually nothing until September 11 is shocking to say the least," said Gioia. "To watch this documentary and see the important questions that were asked and seemingly unanswered and ignored for so many years, it's disturbing."

More than 20,000 people signed a petition demanding an investigation into Giuliani's handling of the FDNY radios. In an interview posted on YouTube, Gioia confirmed that he will take the steps to initiate public hearings, including sending out letters to fellow council members and requesting pertinent documents. Greenwald praised the initial steps forward.

"Brave New Films is thrilled with Councilman Gioia's response to our petition for a City Council investigation into Giuliani's failure to equip firefighters with the radios they needed on 9/11," Greenwald told the Huffington Post. "The groundswell of support for our petition shows the depth of Americans' desire for accountability."

Comments

[provoice]

Within days of 9-11, the Firefighters Union Leader was saying Guliani had vetoed the plan to get GOOD radios for the firefighters and police that died in the World Trade Center... he said that the radios Guliani had vetoed would have save many lives.

Nobody who knows anything about Guliani wants him to run anyway, he's a poor carbon copy of the idiot that is already in the White House... I call him BUSH LIGHT...

[bushdoescrack]

nail the little freak to the wall, don't hold back, expose rudy for the fucking criminal that he is. the criminal currently in the white house have screwed america, perhaps permenantly, at home and abroad.

[smartstuart]

Rudy Mussolini "ran a city"....J­oe Biden didn't! Rudy ran that city into a morgue-infested with dead firemen thanks to his 9/11 failures and failure to prepare for any future disasters after the 1993 WTC bombing-for which,by the way,trolls-everyone caught for that evil deed is in jail!!!! Osama....h­e's on vacation in the Bahamas...­.or might as well be!!!!

[lornejl]

Repigs run for political office for one reason, to cash in, thats all they care about, thats all they have ever cared about, pigs at the trough.

[forpeace]

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..........­...and this Criminal is the Republican Candidate!!!!

Ask Rudy what did exactly happen on 9/11???

Why did all those FireFighters die????

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[olivia]

It's about time.

[stlrfan]

Trudy sees dead people in fire hats screaming into dead radios.

[MyLadyMacbeth]

it is been long overdue .Guiliani has long been rumored to have a contract with the suppliers that is questionable .The firefighters deserve this investigation for the ones they lost and for the ones remaining that they wish to never lose.

[bushdoescrack]

lets the shit and the fan meet, so long rudy, you freak.

[vippy]

Why on earth would anyone issue so called NEW walkie-talkies which were non-working, the day
of 9/11 to the firefighters. My guess is so they could not call down that there were explosions in the WTCs!

[MI6troll]

wars/ghost c&p about "More importantl­y..." in 5, 4, 3, ...

[jashu51]

I don't understand how these Republicants can say they are best at protecting us. What exactly have they done? The same building in NYC gets hit twice in 8 years, but somehow that doesn't count in the equation. Let's see Rudy at another Yankees' game and see how many New Yorkers love him.

[PeteChrisman]

The tip of the Giuliani 9/11 iceberg. Can I donate $9.11 toward the investigation?

[Centauri]

This is great story but I think it will be killed by the media.

[JackSlappyNotYourPappy]

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LOFL

Down goes another repug hopeful!
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