Dear Governor Kean:
We write to express our deep dismay with your ongoing association with the ABC miniseries "The Path to 9/11," intended for broadcast September 10 & 11.
Your continued defense of this deeply flawed production is especially hard to understand in light of your commendable leadership of the 9/11 commission. Like much of the country, we were impressed by the care you and your fellow commissioners took to stick to the facts and to get it right for the American people -- and for history.
Unfortunately, as co-executive producer of this miniseries, you and your new associates haven
chosen to go another way.
While we do not object to a certain amount of dramatic license, we strongly object to wholesale fabrications. Actors portraying us do contemptible things we never did, and say things we neither said nor believed. And what's more, in many instances these portrayals are contradicted by your Commission's own findings.
Whether your broadcast purports to be based on the 9/11 Report in whole -- or only in part -- is increasingly beside the point. The dramatic impact of a costly bot carelessly produced film will invariably overwhelm the impression of any government document.
Amidst alarming reports that irresponsible theories about the events of 9/11 have begun to gain currency with the American people, you should not want to lend your personal reputation to a production which seems likely to instigatenew and dangerous falsehoods. And so we ask that you use your influence to persuade ABC to withdraw the broadcast altogether. Failing that, we urge you to sever your relationship with this grossly misleading production.
Sincerely,
Madeleine Albright
Samuel R. Berger
http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2006/sep/08/albright_and_berger_slam_tom_kean_in_new_letter
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