How Giuliani sanitized his NYC legacy

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-giuliani_bdoct28,1,6179203.story

WASHINGTON - Shortly before Rudy Giuliani left the New York mayor's office in 2001, close associates worked out an unprecedented and controversial deal to transfer his mayoral papers from City Hall to a private, tax-exempt foundation, the Rudolph W. Giuliani Center for Urban Affairs.

Billed as a leadership think tank, the center served as a conduit for Giuliani to copy and archive 2,100 boxes of documents from his time as mayor before returning the originals to the city.

That record, which includes the months after the Sept. 11 attacks when he was anointed as "America's mayor," serves as the foundation of Giuliani's presidential campaign today. Because he moved his papers through a private organization led by his political supporters, however, the integrity of that record has been called into question.

It followed a pattern of tight control over information that the often combative Giuliani practiced as mayor, a pattern that included more than 100 legal challenges from one New York newspaper alone.

While no evidence has surfaced that the record was compromised, the city of New York nonetheless changed its laws to prevent another mayor from doing what Giuliani did. A coalition of archivists, historians and other city officials also raised questions about whether the documents would be sanitized, but the Giuliani Center was allowed to finish archiving the records.

Last December, as Giuliani prepared to announce his GOP presidential bid, the last of the documents were returned to New York's Municipal Archives, where they are now available for public inspection.

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1. So the republicans are screaming for Hillary Clinton's

papers, but are hiding rudi's. Hot damn isn't that typical.

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2. Little shithead Mikey Isikoff has himself worked up into a lather over Clinton's papers

http://www.newsweek.com/id/57351

Papers? I Don’t See Any Papers.

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3. "Now.. you know.. if you study history..."

Those words should always send the redflags up. Newt is the first person that I remember leading with that but you hear Republicans do it all the time. OF course their version of history is to go back and correct their history and act like their little run of the last 30 years is decades even centuries old. This is more of the -run out and declare victory- strategery that Bush (read:Rove) has used to provide his press with cover to praise him endlessly. The Dems should lead with this and point out the actual history of this country and how it has been hijacked by maybe 10% of the voting public (only about a 1/3 of even the Republicans).

I am reading "The Big Con" by Johnathan Chait-even with its New Republic DLC elements it is a good read on the supplysiders rise to fame and power.