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."
We shall see. I would love for Ted Nugent and Alice Cooper to weigh in on this. They are on OUR side you know.
Bent willie was to busy getting a bj to worry about the country.
Bill Clinton is a classic sociopath: he had a screwed up childhood, is totally self-absorbed, demands absolute loyalty but does not reciprocate, lies compulsively, and has little or no conscience, in short, a perfect exemplar for the Demonrat Party.
I've been follwing this interesting thread
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.rush-limbaugh/browse_thread/thread/5bd70545f5f98ff5/25ac5f4223ce4d9c?hl=en#25ac5f4223ce4d9c
I guess Bill is seeing the facade might be crumbling...
Yea but if we dont do something fast the show WILL be edited or even pulled and once again Klinton will get his way and the ignorant millions will believe he was still a great man..We need to jump all over this one or else the Dems will win a victory here. Their propaganda hass enough of the public brainwashed as it is. he Dems have already sent 200 thousand letters of protest to Disney. I've heard NOTHING so far from our side defending the uncut version of the show NOTHING
What gives ?
Someone else posted research tonight that the head of Scolastic has donated heavily to the Dems.
You are absolutely correct. There is much, much more that could have been put into any movie where Clinton is mentioned.
I wonder which party really is running this country?
I've been saying that for 3 years now.he Republicans act as if they LOST power . We NEVER fight back it seems. Why aren't OUR people screaming from the rooftops that the show is the TRUTH and that this is not Soviet Russia and Klnton has no right to demand it be pulled ? We're missing a HUGE opportunity to show th eworld what a POS Klinton is . This could ruin the Dems if aired uncut . Even Bush today said something about how we shouldn't poit a finger at anyone . Why the hell is he trying to be such a nice guy to Klinton knowing , as we all do , that Klinton blew ending OBL # TIMES and did NOTHING aboout the rise of Islamic terror
Bush has been falsly slander by the MSM for years . Why does he take it ? I dont get this at all .Im confused here. He could have simply said let the truth be shown .
The Shadow Government does seem more powerful than the duly elected government, but only because we have so many RINO's like Chuck Hagel who undermine the GOP.
Bush has been falsly slander by the MSM for years . Why does he take it?
I may be way off base, but my personal theory is that Bush has gone a bit too far inside his own head with the 'turn the other cheek' Christian concept. I'm not convinced that JC meant that we are supposed to be quite so 'tolerant' when lives are at stake. I leave it to others who are far more knowledgeable in scripture interpretation to determine if my theory is maybe correct.
Amen!
MORE! The issue has now become a first amendment issue. I would say that any democrat in congress that send threats to ABC to edit or stop a movie whether it be a Michael Moore movie or a Mel Gibson movie...they SHOULD BE IMPEACHED!
The issue is much much bigger now. It's not just the contents of the movie, but what those who are suppose to be protecting our rights have done. I agree!! I wonder which party really is running this country?
Why aren't OUR people screaming from the rooftops that the first amendment is at stake and it's NOT up to the government to decide what is put on tv and what is not (except for decency reasons).
This is impeachable what the dems in congress did.
Where are OUR leaders on this issue?
Are we becoming CUBA???
Now what? Are we going to let the paranoid moonbats at DU dictate what we watch on ABC? Have you people read their posts?
Yes, I have. And it's pretty scary what they are saying in USENET. They are more stalinist than ever!
BTW, how many SS personnel have died in any manner since 2001? The count during the Clinton Administration seems unnaturally high and what is with that C130 crash? What else were they trying to hide at Waco???
Well, the dems are in love with Castro and the dems are firmly in control of the media.
It looks like they may be beginning to lose control over USENET. Seems like Americans on the fence do NOT like censorship and that's what the dems have been standing for. We're winning em over. I think I saw a couple Freepers there as well.
Interesting. I checked the vote there on the 911 movie and Clinton is losing badly.
Richard (Dick) Robinson
Chairman, President & CEO
Scholastic Inc.
http://tinyurl.com/hxtnm
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