In the style of FUX news, this is a fair-and-balanced question raised by the following Wayne Barrett piece in the Village Voice, "Rudy's Five Big Lies About 9/11".
Here's what we know: in spite of documented recommendations by his staff to locate NYC's Emergency command center in Brooklyn, Giuliani wanted to have it within walking distance of City Hall. He selected the most-likely location for a terrorist strike, the WTC complex, already hit in 1993. Giuliani was involved in all phases of site selection and construction. He had a private suite outfitted with personal mementos, a humidor, monogrammed towels in the bathroom, accessed by his own private elevator. He visited the suite often, including weekends, and brought his then-girlfriend Judi Nathan there, before their "friendship" went public.
So... why was it so important to have this "love-bunker" a hop, skip and jump away from City Hall? Was it easier to slip in and out of meetings and lunches for a quickie? Was this the reason for Giuliani's disastrous decision to house NYC command and control center in a prime terrorist target rather than a safer, remote location? Did he use the site for frequent "meetings", much in the way corrupt Giuliani pal Bernard Kerik rented an apartment in Battery Park City (opp WTC site) for trysting with girlfirends Judith Regan and corrections officer Jeanette Pinero? (Kerik reference from:
http://www.voiceoffreedom.com/archives/homelandsecurity/kerik.html)
THIS is the guy who thinks he can do a better job protecting America than any Dem?
Birds of a Feather
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0732,barrett,77463,6.html/full Don't blame me for 7 WTC, Rudy says. In response to his critics' most damning sound bite, Giuliani is attempting to blame a once-valued aide for the decision to put his prized, $61 million emergency-command center in the World Trade Center, an obvious terrorist target. The 1997 decision had dire consequences on 9/11, when the city had to mobilize a response without any operational center.
"My director of emergency management recommended 7 WTC" as "the site that would make the most sense," Giuliani told Chris Wallace's Fox News Channel show in May, pinpointing Jerry Hauer as the culprit.
Wallace confronted Giuliani, however, with a 1996 Hauer memo recommending that the bunker be sited at MetroTech in Brooklyn, close to where the Bloomberg administration eventually built one. The mayor brushed the memo aside, continuing to insist that Hauer had picked it as "the prime site." The campaign then put out statements from a former deputy mayor who said that Hauer had supported the trade-center location at a high-level meeting with the mayor in 1997. <snip>
But Hauer says Denny Young, the mayor's alter ego, who has worked at his side for nearly three decades, eventually "made it very clear" that Giuliani wanted "to be able to walk to this facility quickly." That meant the bunker had to be in lower Manhattan. Since the City Hall area is below the floodplain, the command center—which was built with a hurricane-curtain wall—had to be above ground. The formal city document approving the site said that it "was selected due to its proximity to City Hall," a standard set by Giuliani and Giuliani alone.
The 7 WTC site was the brainchild of Bill Diamond, a prominent Manhattan Republican that Giuliani had installed at the city agency handling rentals. When Diamond held a similar post in the Reagan administration a few years earlier, his office had selected the same building to house nine federal agencies. Diamond's GOP-wired broker steered Hauer to the building, which was owned by a major Giuliani donor and fundraiser. When Hauer signed onto it, he was locked in by the limitations Giuliani had imposed on the search and the sites Diamond offered him. The mayor was so personally focused on the siting and construction of the bunker that the city administrator who oversaw it testified in a subsequent lawsuit that "very senior officials," specifically including Giuliani, "were involved," which he said was a major difference between this and other projects. Giuliani's office had a humidor for cigars and mementos from City Hall, including a fire horn, police hats and fire hats, as well as monogrammed towels in his bathroom. His suite was bulletproofed and he visited it often, even on weekends, bringing his girlfriend Judi Nathan there long before the relationship surfaced. He had his own elevator. Great concern was expressed in writing that the platform in the press room had to be high enough to make sure his head was above the cameras. It's inconceivable that the hands-on mayor's fantasy command center was shaped—or sited—by anyone other than him. 
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