FactCheck: Firefighters vs. Giuliani

FactCheck by Brooks Jackson, Lori Robertson, Viveca Novak, Justin Bank, Jessica Henig, Emi Kolawole, Joe Miller | Jul. 19, 2007 (News Analysis)

The union representing New York City firefighters is running a misleading video blaming former Mayor Rudy Giuliani for the deaths of more than 100 firefighters at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

We agree that Giuliani bears some responsibility for the widely documented failings of the fire department's radio communications on 9/11. It is true that the effective functioning of the fire department is a major responsibility of any ... Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
3.9
 by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The 9/11 commission was a long delayed and largely political whitewash operation that changed testimony to protect the administration, and so provides a questionable source in itself to use for fact checking. Fact checking should be performed on the commission report itself. Yet, many of their criticisms of the IAFF release seem to be worthy of presenting and evaluating. Tying the drift of this checking with their hit piece on Kucinich's war spending claim in the debates tends to cast a doubt on the true independence of the predispositions to the investigations performed by FactCheck.

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