Bill Bratton
The Morning Read: Friday, March 9, 2007
Rudy Giuliani is back in touch with former NYC Police Commissioner Bill Bratton.
Mike Bloomberg defended his trip to Florida immediately after one of the deadliest fires in the city's history.
The New York Post editorial board said that Bloomberg "has demonstrated an appalling inability to connect with the people of New York in times of crisis."
The Sun still wants him to run for president.
The Times editorial board said Christine Quinn will snub organizers of New York's St. Patrick Day parade "in style in style and in the motherland" by marching in a parade in Dublin.
A national fire fighters union official wrote, but never issued, a letter telling members to say "hell no" to Giuliani's presidential candidacy.
Frank Lombardi follows the strange political path of Dr. Mathieu Eugene.
Failed comptroller candidate Howard Weitzman may get a job in Eliot Spitzer's administration after all.
Vito Fossella got a thumbs-up from fiscal conservatives.
And a local community board shot down the idea of renaming a street after late actor Jerry Orbach.
-- Azi PaybarahGrand Illusion
My invitation to Wayne Barrett's book party got lost in the mail, so I had some time to actually read some of it. As the title suggests, Barrett argues that Giuliani wasn't ready for a terrorist attack, and didn't even think about it until it happened.
Page 106:
Asked if Giuliani was accurate when he depicted himself as someone who understood the terrorist threat prior to 9/11, [John] Miller [a top aide for years to Police Commissioner Bill Bratton] declared, "Hello, history. Get me rewrite."
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Transportation Commissioner Iris Weinshall said that "specifically on terrorist attacks, there was no sense of awareness" at the highest levels of the administration and "no discussion of the WTC." Asked if the '93 bombing ever came up, Weinshall, who later became transportation commissioner, said, 'No. Isn't that odd?"
Weinshall's spokeswoman had no comment. read more »
-- Azi Paybarah
