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."
This low life, Democrat piece of human vermin and scum should be sent to hell for eternity to burn forever, and his entire Democrat Party should join him. Bill Clinton, the enabler of 911, and the murderer of thousands of American innocents and military personnel. Com'n Americans, wake up and destroy this disgusting human being and his 'traitor/treason" Democrat party. If you don't, you and all your loved ones will be destroyed down the road by Muslim fanatics abetted by the "traitor" Democrat Party.
Ummmm. Yeah. OK.
And you forgot Suzanne Coleman. How uncharacteristic a "suicide" was that death of a impressionable young and pretty student of Mr. Clinton, Professor of Constitutional Law.
I wish the Republican leadership could stand up for what is right as much as the Dems do for what is wrong!
Sandy Berger stealing documents!!! Where was the national Republican outrage over that? If it had been the other way... say Ms Rice slipping some papers up her skirt and taking them out "on accident"?
I wonder which party really is running this country?
Anyone having trouble understanding why Bill is the way he is should click here.
You see, he just can't help himself. </sarcasm>
Cliton....Sierra, Tango, Foxtrot, Uniform. The blood of thousands is on your degenerate hands. You and that pigfaced sow wife of yours should never be allowed to grace the grounds of the peoples' house where you were serviced by Moanica while you let our country down..go away....far away.
Thanks for that link. Everybody should go look at that. Wow.
Clinton administration officials complained that parts of the miniseries were fabricated.
If what these "Clinton administration officials" are saying is true, WHAT THE HELL WAS SANDY BURGLAR DOING STEALING DOCUMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES?
Answer that one Slick!
This movie is false because the Whitewash Committee says so.
Pray for W and Our Troops
I don't want him dwelling on it but he needs to understand evil is out there. I'm really angry about the Clinton lies and as Rush says "Stalinist Tactics" trying to stop The Path to 9/11.
Great link. So accurate...
Sometimes it was golf.
ML/NJ
I've often wondered what his deepest, most personal thoughts would be about that. I wonder if a disturbed person can recognize and understand that they're disturbed.
Well then, what was the reason he failed to confront the Islamic militant threat? Cowardice? Incompetence? Maybe 'sloppiness'? I'll put my money on 'cowardice'.
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