just one question

UPDATE, 11/3/07: I'm wrong.

While candidate Giuliani has also begun blaming Sheirer's predecessor, Jerry Hauer, for the decision to put the command center in the WTC complex, he did no such thing when asked about it during his commission appearance. He said his administration "wanted a place in lower Manhattan" and "that was probably the primary reason for it"—which is exactly what Hauer says about why it wound up there. Once Giuliani ruled that the center had to be within "walking distance" of City Hall, the World Trade Center became a likely location, since the downtown area is entirely below the flood plain, barring any below-ground site.

Rudy's as big a boob as we think he is, and the guys planning 9/11 probably wanted badly to brain him.

I am officially ceasing to give any credence to the Mayor's bunker as demolition HQ theory. It never made much sense to me anyway.

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What happens if Rudy's telling the truth?

Jerry Hauer, a biological and chemical terrorism expert, was on the air with Dan Rather within two hours of the tower "collapses" to explain the official structural failure and Bin Laden angles. He had the White House on Cipro before the anthrax attacks that used anthrax from a place where he was more connected than any suspects. He hung at Elaine's with an FBI agent who was the most knowledgable about OBL, whose investigations were being thwarted by his superiors, who'd resigned the FBI and taken a job Jerry had gotten for him as head of security for WTC, whose body was found in the rubble on his first day at work.... Don't get me wrong, Rudy Giuliani is a world-class jerk with no business holding public office, but who on earth, believing the '93 WTC attack story, would locate that kind of a command post in that place?

Rudy would absolutely have had to have been made certain of the rightness of such a choice, no matter how badly he wanted to be able to walk there in an emergency. Even if he were too dense or cocky to see or heed the danger, plenty of people would have mentioned it in no uncertain terms to him. Someone else, or some knowledge the rest of us don't have, would, beyond a reasonable doubt, have to have convinced him not to take those worries into account.