The NY Times is hardly at the forefront of reporting. I posted about this on May 15, when the NY Post wrote about Jerry Hauer's challenge to Rudy Giuliani.

As Rudolph W. Giuliani runs for president, his image as a chief executive who steered New York through the disaster of Sept. 11 has become a pillar of his campaign. But one former member of his inner circle keeps surfacing to revisit that history in ways that are unflattering to Mr. Giuliani: Jerome M. Hauer, New York CityÂ’s first emergency management director.

In recent days, Mr. Hauer has challenged Mr. GiulianiÂ’s recollection that he had little role as mayor in placing the cityÂ’s emergency command center at the ill-fated World Trade Center.

Mr. Hauer has also disputed the claim by the Giuliani campaign that the mayorÂ’s wife, Judith Giuliani, had coordinated a help center for families after the attack.

And he has contradicted Mr. Giuliani’s assertions that the city’s emergency response was well coordinated that day, a point he made most notably to the authors of “Grand Illusion,” a book that depicts Mr. Giuliani’s antiterrorism efforts as deeply flawed.

Seems to me that Hauer is out to make a buck off of his connection to Rudy and 9/11, and is prepared to sell him down the river to do so. Interestingly enough, this also shows the flaw of GOP elected officials being "bi-partisan" in their appointments -- the Democrat Hauer is more than willing to stab his old boss in the back as he heads into the presidential run.

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