[RobFromGa]

From editor and publisher earlier today--

The two scenes that received the most attention this week were one involving a near-attack on bin Laden's camp in Afghanistan called off by Clinton aide Sandy Berger, and the other in which Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was fingered for tipping off bin Laden about a missile attack by notifying Pakistan in advance.

The Berger scene, E&P observed via YouTube, remained largely intact -- at least for New Zealand -- but no longer shows him ending the conversation by suddenly cutting the phone call. It does drop some of the on-the-scene shots from Afghanistan that underscored how close we were to bin Laden's camp. (That may be because, according to the 9/11 Commission, this specific episode did not take place.) The scene still cuts directly to Afghan rebel Massood calling Americans "cowards."

The Albright scene has new dialogue, and some old dialogue cut, but still indicts her for telling Pakistan about the attack, as required since cruise missiles had to go over Pakistani territory and might have set off nuclear fears, Albright explains.

Another key scene, in which a composite CIA agent named "Kirk" complains about Clinton's lack of action, is now softened somewhat in the dialogue, but still cuts to the president's famous assertion that he did not have "sexual relations" with Monica Lewinsky. In the new edit, Richard Clarke, the terror expert, now says that Clinton's people had assured him that the president was not distracted from terrorism by the sex scandal.

[tsmith130]

It's hard to imagine the dems becoming any more vitriolic than they already are but I expect they will be rabid with their rhetoric after this airs to counter it.

[Pravious]

So, in other words, ABC gave in and got in right in line behind Monica...

Like the Republican party, they'll learn that giving in just a bit to the Clintonites won't do - nothing less than full-fledged idol worship will suffice, and the network will be just as much attacked as they would if they had made no changes at all.

Personally, if it's going to have been edited to placate a bunch of whiny leftists, I don't know if it's worth 5 hours of my life to watch anymore.

[prairiebreeze]

So they cut Bergler hanging up the phone. Isn't that special.

I may have just changed my mind and my channel. No need to watch knee-pad editing from Disney cowards.