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Article: Hizzoner, once over easy.(former mayor of New York, Rudolph Giuliani, testifies before commission investigating September 11 terrorist attacks)(Brief Article)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- May 31, 2004
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Many of the bereaved family members who showed up for the 9/11 commission's hearings in New York last week looking for answers were sorely disappointed. And by the end of the two-day affair, few were willing to hold back their anger, much of it directed at former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. After he testified, several people in the audience shouted, "What about the radios?" Others branded his testimony as little more than "lies."
The attack on the World Trade Center has always provoked strong emotions in New York, but the commission's hearings struck a new and bitter chord. After being relatively tough on the officials appointed to head the city's police and fire ...