As I posted in Kpete's other thread, we get this turbid grunge on Sunday and Monday, in fact we see it even before Aussie - first in the world as I understand.
Here is a copy of email I sent to local NZ TV Guide mag, you will get the picture from the text! (A modified copy of this was also sent to TVNZ):
"Hi,
Just wondering where you get your articles describing shows from!
Because the 'facts' decribing The Path to 9/11 are wrong. For instance:
Thomas H Kean was Governor of New Jersey (till 1995), NOT New York. That would be George Pataki, since 1999 (and also a Rebublican).
You quote Kean as saying (in part): "We had chances during the Clinton administration to actually get Osama bin Laden..... and didn't pull the trigger."
Wrong again:
"Starting in 1995, Clinton took actions against terrorism that were unprecedented in American history. He poured billions and billions of dollars into counterterrorism activities across the entire spectrum of the intelligence community. He poured billions more into the protection of critical infrastructure. He ordered massive federal stockpiling of antidotes and vaccines to prepare for a possible bioterror attack. He order a reorganization of the intelligence community itself, ramming through reforms and new procedures to address the demonstrable threat. Within the National Security Council, "threat meetings" were held three times a week to assess looming conspiracies. His National Security Advisor, Sandy Berger, prepared a voluminous dossier on al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, actively tracking them across the planet. Clinton raised the issue of terrorism in virtually every important speech he gave in the last three years of his tenure. In 1996, Clinton delivered a major address to the United Nations on the matter of international terrorism, calling it "The enemy of our generation."
"......Pervez Musharraf, pointedly refused to do anything to assist Clinton in dealing with these threats. Despite these and other diplomatic setbacks, terrorist cell after terrorist cell were destroyed across the world, and bomb plots against American embassies were thwarted. Because of security concerns, these victories were never revealed to the American people until very recently."
But,
" In Congress, Clinton was thwarted by the reactionary conservative majority in virtually every attempt he made to pass legislation that would attack al Qaeda and terrorism. His 1996 omnibus terror bill, which included many of the anti-terror measures we now take for granted after September 11, was withered almost to the point of uselessness by attacks from the right; Jesse Helms and Trent Lott were openly dismissive of the threats Clinton spoke of."
Didn't pull the trigger? Much more at
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WilliamPitt/84This programme, written by a long time Republican Party activist, tries to re-write history and throw blame, incorrectly, on the Clinton adminstration using facts that deviate from the 9/11 report, a fact that Kean knows full well. A full roundup of the inaccuracies and comment may be found at:
http://thinkprogress.org/?tag=Path+to+911Due to the factual errors and intentional twisting of events, the ABC has now committed to screening disclaimers throughout their airing of the mini-series pointing out that it is NOT ACTUALLY what happened in the real 9/11 scenario. Your magazine article says it IS the real story. Presuming the article was supplied by TVNZ, I hope you will also point out to them, as I have, that the ABC have altered their stance - no doubt to avoid a political backlash in the USA over being seen a overtly partisan in the runup to crucial American elections.
We should not be misleading NZ viewers either.
Thanks for your time"
I think TVNZ may be on our side, though - they are showing Mike Moore's "Fahrenheit 911" at 9.35 tonight (Saturday) ;-)
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