See what the Clinton Administration is saying about "The Path to 9/11" even before they have seen it

See what the Clinton Administration is saying about "The Path to 9/11" even before they have seen it

Since 09-09-06

From: Lowell J Mix [mailto:ljmix@juno.com]
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 3:16 PM
Subject: The Path to 9/11

Hi All,

Go to this Web Site to see what the Clinton Administration is saying about "The Path to 9/11" even before they have seen it. The truth hurts, and I hope ABC doesn't give in and change the facts to fiction. This explains to me why Billy "Bobber" Clinton has such a sheepish look on his face in the aftermath of 9/11.

He knew what he had allowed or not stopped, and he had guilt written all over his face. I was impressed that President Bush handled the situation with such diplomacy at the time and did not come down hard on Clinton when he could have.

Now Clinton wants to repay him by blaming it all on Bush.

President Bush has made his mistakes since he is human like all the rest of us. but I do not believe he was one bit to blame for 9/11. I think his biggest problem is that he is being shielded from the American Public by both the Media and Congress as well as his own aids.

Try to send him an e-mail at his e-mail address as see what happens. They never get to the President unless the aids want them to. If it is a petition, he never gets them and they are sent back to the person who sends it to him. President Bush's e-mail address: President@whitehouse.gov

Lowell J. Mix

Clinton officials protest 9/11 TV series

Posted 9/7/2006 7:25 PM ET

http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2006-09-07-clinton-911-protest_x.htm

NEW YORK (AP) — A "terribly wrong" miniseries about events leading to the Sept. 11 attacks blame President Clinton's policies, former Clinton administration officials said in letters demanding that ABC correct it or not air it.

But in a statement released Thursday afternoon in apparent response to the growing uproar, ABC said, "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."

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, Clinton Foundation head Bruce Lindsey and Clinton adviser Douglas Band wrote in the past week to Robert Iger, CEO of ABC's parent The Walt Disney Co., to express concern over The Path to 9/11.

The two-part miniseries, scheduled to be broadcast on Sunday and Monday, is drawn from interviews and documents including the report of the Sept. 11 commission. ABC has described it as a "dramatization" as opposed to a documentary.

"For dramatic and narrative purposes, the movie contains fictionalized scenes, composite and representative characters and dialogue, and time compression," ABC said in its statement. "We hope viewers will watch the entire broadcast of the finished film before forming an opinion about it."

The letter writers said the miniseries contained factual errors, and that their requests to see it had gone unanswered.

"By ABC's own standard, ABC has gotten it terribly wrong," Lindsey and Band said in their letter.

"The content of this drama is factually and incontrovertibly inaccurate and ABC has a duty to fully correct all errors or pull the drama entirely. It is unconscionable to mislead the American public about one of the most horrendous tragedies our country has ever known."

The letters pointed out examples of scenes they had been told were in the miniseries, but which they said never happened. Albright objected to a scene that she was told showed her insisting on warning the Pakistani government before an airstrike on Afghanistan, and that she was the one who made the warning.

"The scene as explained to me is false and defamatory," she said.

Berger objected to a scene that he was told showed him refusing to authorize an attack on Osama bin Laden despite the request from CIA officials. "The fabrication of this scene (of such apparent magnitude) cannot be justified under any reasonable definition of dramatic license," he wrote.

Lindsey and Band objected to advertisements for the miniseries, which they said suggested that Clinton wasn't paying enough attention to the threat of terrorism.

"While ABC is promoting The Path to 9/11 as a dramatization of historical fact, in truth it is a fictitious rewriting of history that will be misinterpreted by millions of Americans," they said. "Given your stated obligation to 'get it right,' we urge you to do so by not airing this drama until the egregious factual errors are corrected, an endeavor we could easily assist you with given the opportunity to view the film."

The five-hour miniseries is set to run without commercial interruption. Director David Cunningham said it was a massive undertaking, with close to 250 speaking parts, more than 300 sets, and a budget of $40 million. Cunningham has said he shot 550 hours of film. The cast includes Harvey Keitel, Patricia Heaton and Donnie Wahlberg.