Axelrod: Giuliani flip-flopped on 9/11 trials

White House senior adviser David Axelrod is dismissing former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's criticism of the administration's decision to try five Sept. 11 suspects in federal court in Manhattan.

In an interview Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," Axelrod suggested Giuiliani had flip flopped from just a few years ago when he praised the prosecution of another alleged 9/11 conspirator, Zacarias Moussaoui, in a federal court in Alexandria, Va.

"Mayor Giuliani testified in that case, and he heralded the outcome," Axelrod noted. "He may have changed his view, but we haven’t changed ours."

Giuliani has denounced the plan to try the five suspects as an example of an unwise return to a law enforcement mentality in fighting Al Qaeda.