SECRET 9/11 COMMISSION TESTIMONY REVEALS GIULIANI DISHONESTY

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RAW STORY - David Shuster, substituting for Keith Olbermann as host of
Countdown, reported that Rudy Giuliani's description of himself as the
only candidate who foresaw the danger posed by al Qaeda before 9/11 has
now been refuted by a leaked document.

Typical of Giuliani's claims on the campaign trail is a speech he gave
last summer in which he said of the pre-9/11 period, "Bin Laden declared
war on us. We didn't hear it. ... I thought it was pretty clear at the
time -- but a lot of people didn't see it, couldn't see it."

Wayne Barrett, a reporter for New York's Village Voice and author of
Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11, has now
obtained leaked memos describing Giuliani's testimony before the 9/11
Commission which directly contradict that claim.
Barrett told Shuster that taken as a whole, Giuliani's testimony "was a
confession of ignorance. He basically said, 'I knew nothing about al
Qaeda.'"

For example, Giuliani acknowledged that even though he had received
information on threats between 1998 and 2001, "At the time I had no idea
it was al Qaeda." He further told the commission that after 9/11, "we
brought in people to brief us on al Qaeda. ... We had nothing like this
pre 9/11, which was a mistake."

Giuliani's testimony, like that of other witnesses describing New York
City's response on 9/11, was supposed to remain secret until after the
2008 presidential election.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Giulians_secret_testimony_
to_911_commission_1026.html?


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