Giuliani used doomed WTC 7 command post as a love nest for his mistress

One of the oddities of the Giuliani story is how most New Yorkers are aware of Giuliani's unethical behavior but the mainstream media has by and large refuses to broadcast these stories beyond the five boroughs. This is why Giuliani is booed when he goes to Yankees games but is able to sell his false version of the events of 9/11 outside the city.

One of the more damaging stories that has emerged from the rubble of Giuliani's term as mayor of New York is the fact that the location of his ill-fated emergency command center in WTC 7 was chosen so it could serve as a convenient place for him to meet his mistress. Giuliani used the command center as a weekend getaway with his then mistress Judith Nathan on several occasions before it was destroyed during the attacks of 9/11.

This damning story was broken by Wayne Barrett of The Village Voice:

But Hauer says Denny Young, the mayor's alter ego, who has worked at his side for nearly three decades, eventually "made it very clear" that Giuliani wanted "to be able to walk to this facility quickly." That meant the bunker had to be in lower Manhattan. Since the City Hall area is below the floodplain, the command center—which was built with a hurricane-curtain wall—had to be above ground. The formal city document approving the site said that it "was selected due to its proximity to City Hall," a standard set by Giuliani and Giuliani alone.

The 7 WTC site was the brainchild of Bill Diamond, a prominent Manhattan Republican that Giuliani had installed at the city agency handling rentals. When Diamond held a similar post in the Reagan administration a few years earlier, his office had selected the same building to house nine federal agencies. Diamond's GOP-wired broker steered Hauer to the building, which was owned by a major Giuliani donor and fundraiser. When Hauer signed onto it, he was locked in by the limitations Giuliani had imposed on the search and the sites Diamond offered him. The mayor was so personally focused on the siting and construction of the bunker that the city administrator who oversaw it testified in a subsequent lawsuit that "very senior officials," specifically including Giuliani, "were involved," which he said was a major difference between this and other projects. Giuliani's office had a humidor for cigars and mementos from City Hall, including a fire horn, police hats and fire hats, as well as monogrammed towels in his bathroom. His suite was bulletproofed and he visited it often, even on weekends, bringing his girlfriend Judi Nathan there long before the relationship surfaced. He had his own elevator. Great concern was expressed in writing that the platform in the press room had to be high enough to make sure his head was above the cameras. It's inconceivable that the hands-on mayor's fantasy command center was shaped—or sited—by anyone other than him.

Of course, the consequences of putting the center there were predictable. The terrorist who engineered the 1993 bombing told the FBI they were coming back to the trade center. Opposing the site at a meeting with the mayor, Police Commissioner Howard Safir called it "Ground Zero" because of the earlier attack. Lou Anemone, the highest-ranking uniformed officer in the NYPD, wrote memos slamming the site. "I've never seen in my life 'walking distance' as some kind of a standard for crisis management," Anemone said later. "But you don't want to confuse Giuliani with the facts." Anemone had done a detailed vulnerability study of the city for Giuliani, pinpointing terrorist targets. "In terms of targets, the WTC was number one," he says. "I guess you had to be there in 1993 to know how strongly we felt it was the wrong place."[1]

The ugly truth of it is that all those dramatic pictures and film clips taken of Giuliani rushing around on 9/11 exist because he foolishly located his command center inside the biggest, highest-value terrorist target in the city, and he made that decision based on his desire for a love nest that was conveniently close to the mayor's offices. His advisers had told him that the command center should be located safely in Brooklyn, but Brooklyn is apparently a very inconvenient place to carry on an affair with your mistress.

Now stop and think for a moment: the "family values" party is poised to nominate this man for the American presidency based on his actions that fateful day.