Here we have proof that we can never trust any movie now or in the future about 9-11. Clinton's failure to capture or kill Bin Laden is a known fact and should be included in the movie but no studio or network will want to go through what ABC is going through:
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 American people deserve better than this and the events of that day should be perserved honestly for the benefit of future generations so that they won't repeat the same mistakes that we made. I guess the only place that the events will be perserved will be on the Internet (if you can get through the clutter of misinformation).
Thomas H. Kean, the Republican who chaired the 9/11 commission and is a co-executive producer of the film, said in an interview that he recently asked for changes that would address complaints raised by the former aides to President Bill Clinton and that ABC is considering his request.
"These are people of integrity," Kean said of the filmmakers. "I know there are some scenes where words are put in characters' mouths. But the whole thing is true to the spirit of 9/11."
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.
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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."
The six-hour docudrama, scheduled for broadcast Sunday and Monday, depicts such former Clinton officials as Madeleine K. Albright, Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger and Richard Clarke as undermining efforts to capture or kill Osama bin Laden.
Updated to add: Hugh Hewitt posts part of his interview with the writer/producer of the movie. It appears that they might be taking out the scene with Berger and Hugh suggest they add these scenes in it's place:
But I hope ABC execs add a postscript of Sandy Berger, in the National Archives, stuffing secret documents into his pants and socks, and then pleading guilty to having done so. And a nice bit of footage of Madeleine Albright clinking glasses with Kim Jung Il in late 2000 would be a fine addition as well. Perhaps a shot of the disbarment proceedings of President Clinton, or the rambling last press conference that followed the Marc Rich pardon? The Clinton censors want accuracy, then give them accuracy in everything, I say.
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My last candidate for inclusion in place of the edited out bits: Some video of Sara E. Lister, then Clinton's Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, on October 26, 1997: "I think the Army is much more connected to society than the Marines are. The Marines are extremists. Wherever you have extremists, you’ve got some risks of total disconnection with society. And that’s a little dangerous."
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