Inept Rudy had a good PR machine spreading the crap that he was the next Teddy Roosevelt, if only.

And in spite of 9/11 it was easy to see through his incompetent and deplorable lack of protection.  He had been urged to create strong protective systems but failed to do so.  While Kerik was strutting around,screwing,taking from the mob, and whatever else, Rudy had [inspite of all advice], placed his command quarters in the WTC. Paid for with taxpayer and benefactor money.

He had been warned often to create a command center away from the Center and create good communication between Police and Fire Dept. He did neither. He built himself a huge Center within the Tower, and it went down ASAP. Rudy and Kerik had nowhere to go but run around the streets.

The lack of responder equipment and any emergency protocols were totally  absent,  which we all know caused hundreds of first responders to die needlessly.

The screw up and lack of preparedness by this Mutt and Jeff team was astonishingly inept.

The Fire and Police at the WTC had no means of communication, no knowledge as to the fire and emergency exits.  That was just for openers. Rudy had the previous attack on WTC as a warning that good precautionary systems had to be put in place and that he should do what Bloomberg did. Place an Emergency Command Post to operate in an outer Borough, to command and communicate with respond teams, the government, etc., etc.

When Mr. Giuliani became mayor, he gave Mr. Kerik a job in the Correction Department. A year later, the mayor asked him to drop by Gracie Mansion.

The two men sat upstairs and shared a bottle of red wine, a gift to the mayor from Nelson Mandela. Mr. Giuliani said he planned to appoint Mr. Kerik as first deputy correction commissioner.

Mr. Kerik, who wrote of this in his autobiography, "The Lost Son," was taken aback; he was a year removed from being a police detective.

"Mayor, I appreciate your confidence in me, I really do," he said. "But I ran a jail. One jail. Rikers is like 10 jails."

Just do it, the mayor replied.

Mr. Kerik followed Mr. Giuliani downstairs to a dimly lighted room. There waited Mr. Giuliani's boyhood chum Peter J. Powers, who was first deputy mayor, and other aides. One by one, they pulled Mr. Kerik close and kissed his cheek.

"I wonder if he noticed how much becoming part of his team resembled becoming part of a mafia family," Mr. Kerik wrote. "I was being made."