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ABC to Alter Show on Pre-9/11 Run-Up
The Washington Post ^ | September 8, 2006 | Howard Kurtz

Posted on 09/08/2006 5:44:59 AM PDT by TaxachusettsMan

ABC plans to make minor changes to its docudrama on the run-up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in response to heated complaints from former Clinton administration officials that a number of scenes are fabricated, a network executive said yesterday . . .

The ABC executive said the "adjustments and refinements" are "intended to make clearer that it was general indecisiveness" by federal officials that left the country vulnerable to terrorist attacks, "not any one individual." The executive, who requested anonymity because the network is making only written comments, said small revisions have been underway for weeks.

The network's move came as the children's publishing company Scholastic deleted from its Web site materials about "The Path to 9/11," developed in partnership with ABC, that were being offered to 25,000 high school teachers. "We determined that the materials did not meet our high standards for dealing with controversial issues," Chairman Dick Robinson said.

Democrats ratcheted up the pressure yesterday. Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) and four Democratic colleagues wrote to Robert Iger, chief executive of the Walt Disney Co., ABC's corporate parent, urging him to cancel the movie. The Democratic National Committee obtained more than 100,000 signatures on a petition demanding cancellation. Jay Carson, a spokesman for former president Bill Clinton, called ABC's plan to air the movie "despicable."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: TaxachusettsMan

How long did ABC run with the total lies put out by Joe Wilson and his croonies.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JuH1xwLUnbg

Were the Clintoons paid by the Opecker Thugs to protect Ben Laden?

Are the Clintoons and rats in Congress still getting paid to protect the al Qaeda serial killers, who would kill all of us if given an opportunity.


41 posted on 09/08/2006 9:24:50 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic lies/wet dreams posing as news.)
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To: petercooper

NICE front page. Paris in cuffs and the DEMs denying they're wimps on terror. Beautiful. It doesn't even matter so much what happens to the movie now. The cool thing is that the right was out in front of this (Thanks Rush!) and so the story is the DEMs having a hissy fit. Put them on the defensive. Nice!


42 posted on 09/08/2006 10:58:09 AM PDT by Huck (There is a $2.00 service charge for this tagline---do you still wish to proceed?)
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To: hophead
"The signatories to this letter should all face impeachment hearings"

It's a matter for the FBI.
"The FBI is the lead federal agency for investigating color of law abuses, which include acts carried out by government officials operating both within and beyond the limits of their lawful authority. Off-duty conduct may be covered if the perpetrator asserted his or her official status in some way. "

43 posted on 09/08/2006 11:09:07 AM PDT by mrsmith
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To: thepresidentsbestfriend
You "personally believe" that Berger hung up on Massoud and a CIA agent who were on the other end of the phone, watching OBL and waiting for the go ahead to get him? Well, it is nice that you "personally believe" it, but even Richard Mintier says there is no factual basis for it.

You "personally believe" that Madeline Albright called up the Pakistanis and tipped them off to an attempt to get OBL? Again, it is nice that you "personally believe" it, but no one has ever presented a shred of evidence that it happened.

Do you have any standard for what you "personally believe" other than what you want to believe? That seems to be more and more common around here. The truth doesn't matter - only who is helped and who is hurt.

The truth about how AQ was ignored from in the 90s and up to 9/11 is bad enough, for everyone involved. Why are you so pleased with the idea of making up stories about it?

44 posted on 09/08/2006 11:17:34 AM PDT by lugsoul (Livin' in fear is just another way of dying before your time. - Mike Cooley)
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To: mrsmith

US CODE
TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 13 >
§ 241. Conspiracy against rights

If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate
any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in
the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by
the Constitution or laws of the United States... They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both


45 posted on 09/08/2006 11:18:50 AM PDT by mrsmith
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To: BenLurkin

Interesting that you chose to paraphrase a 'quote' uttered by someone who wasn't within a few hundred miles of the place he is depicted making that statement.


46 posted on 09/08/2006 11:18:59 AM PDT by lugsoul (Livin' in fear is just another way of dying before your time. - Mike Cooley)
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To: TaxachusettsMan

47 posted on 09/08/2006 11:19:33 AM PDT by cartoonistx
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To: All

ARE THE SCHOLASTIC MATERIALS IN A CACHE SOMEWHERE?

HAVE THEY BEEN SAVED?

The UNCENSORED version is going to be a MUST SEE ITEM!!!


48 posted on 09/08/2006 12:21:56 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Baynative

It is a shrill PANIC mode

It is literally foaming at the mouth, wide eyed, "doth protest too much", PANIC PANIC PANIC PANIC.

This is waaaaaaay beyond BDS, this is clinical mental illness.


49 posted on 09/08/2006 12:52:04 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: lugsoul
A CIA AGENT WITH 28 YEARS SERVICE AND was in charge of the Bin laden unit says its true,All of it!!!

He goes on to say that Clintons had 8 chances to get BL.

Sorry I cant place his name...FYI Madeline Albright is a SLUT AND A WHORE.She is a liar and has no value as a human being IMHO.She bears false witness on our president.

Berger stuffed secret papers down his pants.Clinton was a disgrace.Hillary is a disgrace.

Every single person in the clinton administration is FILTH!!!!
Richard Mintier was not there.
50 posted on 09/08/2006 1:10:53 PM PDT by thepresidentsbestfriend
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To: thepresidentsbestfriend
Someone I can't name says it is all true. Boy, that is convincing.

Do some friggin' research. When the snatch team was in place to go after OBL, there was NO ONE from CIA there. No one. And, contrary to the movie, Massoud wasn't there. Wasn't even in the province. Or even the adjoining province. So if the unnamed CIA agent says it is all true, he doesn't know what he is talking about.

If you are talking about Michael Scheurer, who did head the unit, his statements have been posted all over FR today and he doesn't even come close to saying "it is all true." In fact, his statement on whether Berger spiked the mission was that he didn't know, he thought NSC might have done it but that Tenet told him that he personally made the call.

If the heads of the Bin Laden unit are what makes the sale for you on the topic, every head of Alec Station was interviewed for 'Ghost Wars', Steve Coll's book on CIA in Afghanistan. Maybe you ought to read it, instead of believing everything you read on the internet.

51 posted on 09/08/2006 1:42:36 PM PDT by lugsoul (Livin' in fear is just another way of dying before your time. - Mike Cooley)
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To: auto power
"dems are practicing censorship....be afraid...be very afraid....."

I personally made a career (33 years) in the investment advisory business by being a contrarian, and my clientele prospered in the long run.

The relevance of that little resume is: I think if this show is completely pulled, it would be the best thing to happen to the Republicans vis-a-vis the November elections.

Politicians threatening the 1st amendment is just about as low as it can go in America.

No one is compelled to watch this show but partisan politicians telling a media outlet what it can show is abominable.

QUESTION: Remember "the dog that didn't bark"? (S. Holmes - "the dog did nothing in the nightime.") Hillabeast is certainly not barking, is she. Now remember she went on Matt Lower's show and said Slick and Lude had nothing going on, it was a VRWC?

She could be doing that now, but she's not. Why not? Fear of political backwash?

52 posted on 09/08/2006 2:04:17 PM PDT by Positive (Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
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