Firefighters: Giuliani Ditched 9/11 Body Recovery 24 Hrs. After Securing $230 Million In Buried Gold

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/12/giuliani-firefighters-gold/

Firefighters: Giuliani Ditched 9/11 Body Recovery 24 Hours After Securing $230 Million In Buried Gold

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani has regularly touted his leadership in the wake of 9/11 as one of his major selling points. A host of 9/11 responders have alleged, however, that Giuliani provided them with poor radios, misled them into working amidst toxic fumes, and most recently, hastily cleared out the rubble before bodies were all recovered.

Six weeks after 9/11, Giuliani abandoned efforts to recover remaining bodies and buckled to pressure from developers eager to “scoop” the rubble:

The fact is that the Mayor’s switch to a scoop-and-dump coincided with the removal of tens of millions of dollars of gold, silver and other assets of the Bank of Nova Scotia that were buried beneath what was once the towers. Once the money was out, Giuliani sided with the developers that opposed a lengthy recovery effort, and ordered the scoop-and-dump operation so they could proceed with redevelopment.

Yesterday, Harold Schaitberger of the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) — the nation’s largest firefighters organization, consisting of 280,000 members — assailed Giuliani, detailing how the mayor ditched body-recovery efforts only 24 hours after recovering the $230 million in gold. “He found the gold on October 31, and on November 1 is when he issued the order to remove the firefighters from their recovery mode.” Watch it at link~

The IAFF has produced a video entitled “Rudy Giuliani: Urban Legend,” extensively documenting Giuliani’s negligence after 9/11, featuring “active and retired fire fighters, fire officers and families of the fallen speaking out about the ‘Real Rudy,’ his failed leadership and his disrespect for the recovery of those we lost.”

Already, the video has been attacked by the right wing as another form of “Swift Boating.” But as the Carpetbagger noted, “The comparison is ridiculous. The Swiftboat attackers were lying; the International Association of Fire Fighters aren’t.”

(HT: Crooks and Liars)

That is one big-ass ANTI-swift boat the FDNY has got going. Kudos to them! Hope it works!

edited for correct terminology.

swift boating was based on lies...

If it's true it's not really swiftboating. What is the term for it if it's true?

but in this case, yes.

HE DID WHAT?

Crap. I live here and I missed that? How come I didn't know?

When in 04, they would have told you no such tactic existed. I love the response though, "The comparison is ridiculous. The Swiftboat attackers were lying; the International Association of Fire Fighters aren’t.”

I'm pretty sure they'll still risk their lives to save your kids, but are you?

So will everyone else. He is finished. This is what it takes to put him down, permanently.

Why wasn't it the FBI's decision?

It was, after all, a national crime scene.

he bullied his way into being the east coast 'decider'?

that before.

Did Cheney order Ashcroft to have the FBI stand down, so that the site could be politicized for Dubya's megaphone photo-op? After "bunnypants" Dubya returned from the series of hidey-holes where he spent September 11th, of course.

Remember Dubya's fund-raising material where he explained he was "just trying to keep out of harm's way" on that fateful day? There would not have been a breach for Rudy to jump into and become a "hero" had we had a President like Kennedy, Johnson, Truman, or Eisenhower on 9/11/01.

organization hell bent on nailing Giuliani. Screw the facts this is a left wing hit job! :eyes:

I know...

Rudy GOLDFINGER!

I wish people would follow him around with boomboxes, blaring out the Shirley Bassey themesong from the 1967 movie.

...one would think. I can't decide if we'd be better off with him as their nominee or not.

since when? i thought they fucking *loved* swiftboating. why, they were orgasmic over those anti kerry ads.