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Former Aide Hits Giuliani Over 'Intensive Questioning'
Rudy Giuliani has been embellishing his record on torture and "intensive questioning," says former New York City director of emergency management and frequent Giuliani critic Jerry Hauer in a conversation with the Huffington Post.
"If Rudy is suggesting in any way that they used torture or aggressive interrogation in New York City then he is absolutely unfit to be president," Hauer said, "because torture in a local jurisdiction is, first of all, illegal. Secondly, it is inhumane. It is not something that is done at the local level."
In an interview over the weekend, Rudy implied that he employed "intensive questioning" as Mayor in order to fight the mafia. Hauer is rejecting those claims outright, saying: "That would have been absolutely disgraceful and a downright violation of everybody's constitutional liberties... even when they caught the terrorists that were going to blow up the subways [in August 1997], obviously there was interrogation but I never heard of anything involving aggressive techniques."
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November 6, 2007 2:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sure they used torture. Just ask Abner Louima.
November 6, 2007 3:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't think Rudy was talking about when he was mayor...his Mafia-fighting was all when he was US Attorney for the Southern District of NY (i.e., Manhattan). That's how he came to political prominence in NY ... cleaning up organized crime out of the Fulton Fish Market, etc.
November 6, 2007 3:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Giuliani believes being a prosecutor and mayor have prepared him to be President of the United States. He obviously thinks New York City is the center of the Universe, and he's never lived anywhere else. Giuliani thinks Staten Island is "rural". We don't need a president who's ego is so big he thinks he knows everything about everything (and doesn't).
November 6, 2007 4:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Aren't you familiar with The New Yorker's View of the World? Look here and you'll get an idea of Rudy G's perspective: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:The_New_Yorker%2C_1976-03-29%2C_Cover_%28View_of_the_World_from_9th_Avenue%2C_priced_and_dated%29.PNG
Also, I wonder how many inquiries Mayor Bloomberg's office and the NYPD received over this issue.
November 6, 2007 6:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is the news story of the year. Every criminal now can overturn their conviction with Trudi's admission that torture was used in New York City.
Just watch the lawyers descend.
November 7, 2007 8:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
These contradictions in Rudy Giuliani's anti-terrorism claims in the presidential race make him a weak and vulnerable opponent for Hillary Clinton.
November 15, 2007 2:29 PM | Reply | Permalink