Posted on 09/09/2006 2:18:40 PM PDT by upchuck
Bill Clinton assails 9/11 TV drama
Former President Bill Clinton has dismissed as "indisputably wrong" a US TV show that suggests he was too distracted by a sex scandal to confront the Islamic militant threat that culminated in the Sept. 11 attacks, his spokesman said.
"The Path to 9/11," a miniseries due to be broadcast on Sunday and Monday nights, charts the run-up to the attacks that occurred five years ago and killed 2,992 people.
The show portrays Clinton's former national security adviser, Sandy Berger, and others as having bungled an opportunity to capture Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in the 1990s.
Clinton administration officials complained that parts of the miniseries were fabricated.
Jay Carson, a spokesman for Clinton's office in New York, said: "We don't claim the scenes are wrong. They are indisputably wrong. ABC says so. The 9/11 commission report says so. Tom Kean (the Republican chairman of the 9/11 commission and a consultant on the film) says so. The writer of the show says so."
Clinton handed over power to President George W. Bush about eight months before the 2001 attacks.
On Friday, The Washington Post reported ABC was making minor changes to its docudrama in response to complaints by Clinton administration officials and other Democrats.
The network would not confirm those changes were being made, but issued a statement saying, "For dramatic and narrative purposes, the movie contains fictionalised scenes, composite and representative characters and dialogueue, and time compression.
"No one has seen the final version of the film, because the editing process is not yet complete, so criticisms of film specifics are premature and irresponsible."
Kean told The Washington Post he asked for changes that would address complaints raised by the former Clinton officials. He told the paper the network was considering his request.
The newspaper quoted one unidentified ABC executive as saying changes were "intended to make clearer that it was general indecisiveness" by federal officials that left America vulnerable to attacks, "not any one individual."
The show has added fuel to the election-year debate over who is tougher on terrorism, and US congressional Democrats urged ABC this week to cancel the miniseries.
Materials that publishing company Scholastic intended to use in conjunction with the program have been pulled from Scholastic's web site.
"After a thorough review of the original guide that we offered online to about 25,000 high school teachers, we determined that the materials did not meet our high standards for dealing with controversial issues," Dick Robinson, head of Scholastic, said in a statement.
The producers of "The Path to 9/11" say the miniseries is based on information collected at commission hearings.
Starring Harvey Keitel, it traces the roots of the Sept. 11 plot, depicting missteps, ineptitude, political decisions and bureaucratic intransigence that thwart investigative efforts.
"The American government let us down," Kean told Reuters. "Not only didn't they stop the plot, they didn't even slow it down."
Kean said he saw the show as a way to raise awareness of the recommendations made by the 9/11 commission, which issued its report in 2004.
Kean said he expected criticism. "People in both parties didn't particularly like the commission report, and I think people in both parties aren't going to love this one."
I guess Bill is seeing the facade might be crumbling...
I certainly hope so!
Huh?
the bent one doth protest too much!!!!
Billy Boy doesn't have the same weight anymore... this movie hit a cord with the Clintonistas.. until now they were perfectly ok with blaming Bush for all our current Wartime engagements.. but Bush was only coming in when 911 hit the American consciousness. Now that we are getting down to the details we see clinton ignored the signs all along.. Waht did Clinton know, and when did he know it? The American people would like to know Philanderer-in-Chief!
I wonder how many threats they got from the Clintonistas before they pulled their support?
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The one scandal that Clinton feared the most from ever seeing the light of day was China-gate
And then....show Clinton for the rotten, lying POS he is.
I still wasn't having sex with that woman when that mad mulla was bombing thangs. Honest. Cross my heart. the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the , oh, whatever.
Mr. Clinton has a point; I don't think it was the sex scandal that kept him from doing anything about the Islamic militant threat. There are so many other reasons. He probably would not have done anything about it anyway.
Is YouTube NEXT?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE9TLgCVLBM
Should ABC cave, it sets a bad precedent. Next comes the talk shows...
Bump.
How about the murder of Ron Brown? That wasn't very politically correct. Or the murder of Vince Foster? Or as many as 200 other murders, and several rapes?
The rape of Juanita Broaddrick wasn't very pretty. Nor was the rape of that young student at Oxford whom he bought off or threatened. Apparently that was about the only thing he accomplished while he was at Oxford, subsidized by the taxpayers.
Although, yes, I agree that giving China all the information they needed to copy the latest versions of American ICBMs and nuclear warheads, in return for campaign contributions, was not a very patriotic gesture.
YEP!!
lest we forget:
911 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJfy-cHkkmM
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