PA's boss: No way (Rather Quit than Ask Staff to work in Freedom Tower)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/453873p-381824c.html

The head of the Port Authority said he would rather quit than ask his staffers to work in the Freedom Tower - a stance that landed him in hot water yesterday with Mayor Bloomberg.

"Twice these were the subject of that attack, and I am not going to ask them to move into that building," PA Chairman Anthony Coscia told The Record of Hackensack, N.J., in yesterday's editions. "I'll resign, but I won't ask them to move into that building."

Coscia, whose agency was based at the World Trade Center during the 1993 bombing and lost 84 employees on 9/11, conceded publicly in June that his staffers were skittish about returning to Ground Zero.

Although he's since pressed on with the PA's commitment to lease some 600,000 square feet in Tower 4, a smaller, 61-story building planned at the Trade Center site, his Freedom Tower statements to The Record were notable for their candor - which Bloomberg didn't appreciate.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/453872p-381827c.html

Let FBI, CIA sit at top of tower

With the promise of government tenants filling almost half its many floors, the Freedom Tower now seems certain to rise shining and proud from where so many innocents perished.

Why not make two of those government agencies - the FBI and the CIA - and place them at the soaring tower's uppermost floors?

The guiding principle among bosses at both the FBI and CIA has long been CYA, the C standing for "cover," the Y for "your," the A for what would be in a desk chair 1,000 feet above the street if they were lodged in the tower.

That suddenly would give CYA a more visceral and immediate meaning. A boss thus nested would be considerably less likely ever to lapse into the do-nothing approach of the days leading up to 9/11.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

1. I wouldn't work there

It's a graveyard as far as I'm concerned.

I walk past the site several times a week, and I can't imagine anyone wanting to work there.

[The Deacon]

3. We Cannot Dedicate - We Cannot Consecrate - The Ground They

Gave Their Lives On (with apologies to President Lincoln.) As the with the Murrah Building site in O.K.C., this has become, to many of us, Holy Ground, which the "Freedom Tower" blasphemes.

[bettyellen]

2. the plan to use it for fed and state govt offices paints a target on it.

i wouldn't want to work there either.

[quiet.american]

4. Who gave IL BOOSH permission to rename it "Freedom Tower."

Bush has so perverted the principles of freedom, it's obscene to call it "Freedom Tower."

[SemperEadem]

5. whenever I ride the PATH train to WTC station

it pisses me off that 5 years after the fact, OBL still is on the loose and bush has pretty much farted in the faces of those people who've lost loved ones in that attack. He has no intention of finding OBL--and if he knows where he is, he's waiting to use it to spring on the gullible amurkin sheople at election time.

[yellerpup]

6. This proposal makes perfect sense

I like this creative approach to solving the tenancy problem at the WTC site. I was here for both attacks, and personally, I don't know how people psyched themselves to go back after the 1993 debacle. K&R! :kick: On second thought, maybe Halliburton and KBR or the office of the VP should go too.