De nieuwe Film stelt bloot hoe de Brandbestrijders van Rudy Failed op 9/11

SAM Stein

De filmmaker Robert Greenwald heeft een ander explosief vrijgegeven korte documentaire film over Rudy Giuliani, dit keer dat de controversiële behandeling van de vroegere van New York burgemeester van de Stad van radio's benadrukt die door de de brandafdeling van de stad worden gebruikt op Sept. 11. Greenwald ook petitioneert de Gemeenteraad van New York Om een onderzoek van de kwestie te lanceren.

De Webvideo, die Maandag door Moedige Nieuwe Films wordt vrijgegeven, beweert dat tijdens zijn beleid Giuliani er niet in slaagde om FDNY met adequaat uit te rusten, laat staan functionerend, communicatie materiaal. That in turn created massive problems on 9/11 and may have contributed to the unnecessary deaths of dozens of servicemen.

“What did Mr. Giuliani do [about faulty radios]?” Al Santora, the retired Chief of Safety for FDNY whose son died on 9/11, asks in one of the film’s most poignant moments. “He had eight years. He did nothing to correct that situation… We got people dead as a result.”

As Greenwald documents, the radios used by the FDNY on 9/11 were precisely the same ones that malfunctioned during the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. Eight years after that attack, Giuliani did replace the defective equipment. But the new radios he bought under a no-bid, $14 million contract from Motorola (the previous contract was $1.4 million) were never field-tested. The “upgrade” proved disastrous. Within a week, the just-purchased radios were recalled after a firefighter’s mayday went un-heard. Giuliani was forced to reissue the old, faulty batch. And on 9/11 when a police helicopter warned that the North Tower could collapse, more than 120 firefighters remained inside.

“The radios failed them and that was Giuliani failing them,” says Roseleen Tallon, whose brother Sean was an FDNY member killed in 9/11.

In addition to releasing the film on www.therealrudy.org, Greenwald is petitioning New York City Councilman Eric Gioia to initiate a public investigation into Giulaini’s handling of the FDNY radios.

“No investigation has ever taken place,” Greenwald told the Huffington Post. “People were killed because he screwed up… and family members want questions answered.”

Giuliani’s office did not return calls requesting comment.

This is the second Giuliani film made by Greenwald. The first explored the former mayor’s decision to ignore the advise of his own security experts and locate New York’s terrorist command center at the World Trade Center, despite its centrality as a potential terrorist target.

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