Posted on 09/07/2006 9:32:04 AM PDT by yoe
An angry Bill Clinton is demanding that ABC "correct all errors in its upcoming miniseries "The Path to 9/11 or pull it from the air.
In a letter to ABC boss Bob Iger, Clinton refuted several of the miniseries assertions, including that he was too preoccupied with the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal to care about Osama bin Laden.
"The content of this drama is factually and incontrovertibly inaccurate and ABC has the duty to fully correct all errors or pull the drama entirely, reads the letter, written by Bruce Lindsey, head of the Clinton Foundation, and Douglas Bond, a top lawyer in Clintons office.
The letter obtained by the New York Post also charges that the miniseries is a "fictitious rewriting of history.
Clinton aides have seen only a trailer from the six-hour miniseries, which airs on Sept. 10 and 11, the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. They have also received reports from political allies who have seen it.
Clintons office requested a copy of the docudrama, but the request was denied, Clinton spokesman Jay Carson told the Web site TPMCafe.com.
In one scene from the miniseries, an FBI agent and a CIA operative complain about red tape frustrating their attempts to pursue terrorists, according to a front-page story in the Post that refers to Clinton as "Bungle Bubba.
The movie then cuts to a close-up of Clinton maintaining that he did "not have sex with that woman Monica Lewinsky insinuating that the Lewinsky scandal was distracting him from the bin Laden threat.
Clintons letter notes that the 9/11 Commissions report concluded that he was "deeply concerned about bin Laden. In another scene, then-National Security Adviser Sandy Berger played by Kevin Dunn denies authorization to CIA agents about to capture bin Laden in Afghanistan.
Sorry William. THIS IS YOUR LEGACY.
Letters signed by lawyers are all well and good but will they actually file suit? I would think Bill Clinton is a little gun-shy about the discovery process as is, let alone that he can't claim privilege now. Call their bluff, ABC. Show some backbone.
Now they will bring in the "experts" that swear that Clinton has the unusual ability to "compartmentalize" things in such a way that he was never really distracted from his duties as president.
An educated person actually wrote this morsel of word salad?
Incontrovertibly inaccurate? I'm still trying to figure out if that's a double-negative or isn't not.
Any minute now Tim Robbins will come out in support of ABC's freedom of speech and how he feels a "chill wind" blowing from the Clinton camp.
/S
If it makes BJ feel any better, I for one don't think that Lewinsky distracted him from the terror threat at all, because I don't see where he was ever interested in doing anything about terrorism in the first place (as evidenced by the fact that he did nothing about the Cole bombing which happened long after Lewinsky).
I think the only thing that the Lewinsky matter possibly "distracted" BJ from was finding more skanks to have sex with.
I smell a rat here with ABC's "Path to 9/11" mini-series.
What if ABC has have a second version already filmed and edited which is much more favorable to the Clinton Administration.
ABC puts out this "bait" version and allows various Republicans (and Democrats) to see just to create media hype, and THEN when Sunday comes (9/10) they put on the more favorable to-Clinton version at the last minute.
NVA, for a minute I thought ....wow, I didn't know Clinton objected to Farenheit 911...then I saw your NOT !
Smacked self....LOL !
There's a chill wind blowing...
Has ABC made any comments about this yet?
Also, the documents Sandy Burglar was stealing - some still missing BTW - were reports or Clintonian response to terrorism written by Richard Clarke at the direction of Sandy. At the time Sandy was tasked with reviewing documents in order to present the Clinton version for the 9/11 commission.
Now, Sandy is saying the movie doesn't fit the commission report.
I wish ABC would tell Slick "we'll be happy to review new documents for accuracy, as soon as Sandy Berger finds them."
Once again it's the same old "Everyone else is lying but Bill Clinton is the only one telling the truth" mentality we remember from the 1990s about Bill and his zombies. What a bunch of loops...
Ah, the Brownshirts of the left are out in full force to stop the truth. Next it will be book burning in great pyre in the middle of town square.
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