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I interviewed Wayne Barrett, whose new book, Grand Illusion, tries to strip Rudy Giuliani of his post-9/11 mythic stature. Barrett interviewed people in the Giuliani administration who said the '93 World Trade Center bombing and terrorism in general never came up.

Terrorism is also missing from Barrett's 2000 biography on Giuliani. "If somebody wants to say I wasn't sensitive to the terrorist threat when I wrote the first Rudy book, I think that's fair comment. I think the question is 'Why wasn't he?' "

As for whether Grand Illusion is opposition research for Hillary Clinton and John McCain, Barrett said, "Rudy has a long way to go before he faces Hillary Clinton."  read more »

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