ABC Refuses to Provide Copies of Path to 9/11 to Clinton Albright, Berger.

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Full article at thinkprogress.org

ABC has been aggressively advancing its inaccurate and politically slanted miniseries, “The Path to 9/11,” to the right wing. Big players like Rush Limbaugh have been provided copies, as have obscure right-wing bloggers like Patterico.

But ABC has refused to provide a copy to President Clinton’s office. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former National Security Adviser Samuel Berger have also requested copies of the film from ABC, and both have been denied. Both Berger and Albright are harshly criticized in the film in scenes that, according to former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, are “180 degrees from what happened.”

Here is an excerpt from Albright’s letter:

While I have requested a copy of the broadcast, I have yet to receive one. I have been informed by some who had been given the right to view the broadcast that the drama depicts scenes that never happened, events that never took place, decisions that were never made and conversations that never occurred; it asserts as fact things that are not fact.

For example, one scene apparently portrays me as refusing to support a missile strike against bin Laden without first alerting the Pakistanis; it further asserts that I notified the Pakistanis of the strike over the objections of our military. Neither of these assertions is true. In fact, the 9/11 commission reports states (page 117), “Since the missiles headed for Afghanistan had had to cross Pakistan, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs was sent to meet with Pakistan’s army chief of staff to assure him the missiles were not coming from India. Officials in Washington speculated that one or another Pakistani

[rodeodance]

1. gosh, time to email ABC once again!

[SpiralHawk]

2. ABC is now a shameless republicon propaganda organ

shame shame shame

How totally un-American, Totally un-patriotic.

[uppityperson]

3. k&r for truth and responsibility

and the clenis

[tularetom]

4. Clinton won't make a peep about this

It might harm Hillary's presidential aspirations and keep him from getting invited back to Kenny Bunk Port. Perhaps Albright will raise hell but I would be willing to bet the medium-size dog will remain mute.

[KoKo]

7. Maybe if the fake docudrama is aired Clinton and Albright will make a

joint statement disputing what was depicted showing up ABC as Partisan Hacks.

We can hope...anyway...

[kurth]

5. Shameless lapdogs. How about yanking their license

with the next Democratic administration.

[oc2002]

6. does Clinton take his mask off in the movie to reveal an ALIEN!

as he chops of the head of some poor soul holding a bible?

Or does Clinton have a satanic pentagram painted with creep blood in the oval office?

ABC should of stuck with that plan, but where afraid the censors would not allow them, so they just put the scene with Albright and Berger instead.

[Stockholm]

8. ABC is such an Mickey Mouse channel anyway

In honest, if you never watched them again - would you miss out on anything?