Rudy's Pants On Fire - Village Voice

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Rudy's Pants On Fire
Secret testimony shows that Rudy's stump speech is inflated, at best
by Wayne Barrett - October 23rd 2007 - Village Voice

In a recent broadside deriding the Clinton administration's response to Al Qaeda, Rudy Giuliani told an audience at Pat Robertson's Regent University: "Bin Laden declared war on us. We didn't hear it. I thought it was pretty clear at the time, but a lot of people didn't see it, couldn't see it." Other tenets of his standard stump speech include the assertion that he's been "studying terrorism" for more than 30 years, and that "the thing that distinguishes me on terrorism is that I have more experience in dealing with it" than the other presidential candidates.
However, in private testimony before the 9/11 Commission in 2004, Rudy gave a very different version of how much he knew about terrorism when the World Trade Center was attacked. That testimony isn't scheduled to be released publicly until after the 2008 presidential election, but the Voice has obtained a copy of it. And it reveals a New York mayor who was anything but an "expert on terrorism."

A 15-page "memorandum for the record," prepared by a commission counsel and dated April 20, 2004, quotes Giuliani conceding that it wasn't until "after 9/11" that "we brought in people to brief us on al Qaeda." According to the memorandum, Giuliani told two commission members and five staffers: "But we had nothing like this pre 9/11, which was a mistake, because if experts share a lot of info," there would be a "better chance of someone making heads and tails" of the "situation." (Such memoranda are not verbatim transcripts of the confidential commission interviews, but are described on the cover page as "100 percent accurate" notes taken by staffers, stamped "commission sensitive/unclassified" on the top of each page.)

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1. Ghouliani is just one lying sack of shit!

Shameful that this asshole (just like Bush) is using 9/11 for his own political gain.

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2. Too bad the average American won't get to understand what a lying

fraud the guy is.

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3. ........and the bullshit story about the mob wanting to knock him off.

Bennie Kerik was just a friend that Giuliani didn't know enough about when he recommend him to junior for the Homeland Security job. Who's shitting who?

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4. Rudy Giuliani is the the biggest liar in human history

Mayor Brodeur:
"The man (Rudy) is a psychotic criminal. Be warned: He is the biggest liar in human history followed only by American journalists."

excerpted from: More Giuliani Crime Scandals:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDbXOvuSZ-I

And for those interested, Mayor Brodeur has a zillion more videos about Giuliani videos like

Giuliani Admits He's A Crook!
This is not partisan politics.
If you pay taxes, you'll despise Giuliani.
If you don't pay taxes, you'll despise Giuliani.
If you drive a car, you'll hate him.
If you take mass transit, you'll hate him.
If you ride a bicycle, you'll hate him.
If you rollerskate, you'll hate him.
If you walk, you'll hate Giuliani.
But ONLY if you find out the facts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAvno_On2cM