More Lies - Path to 9/11: Condi - The Fated Memo & Bush's Supposed Concern

[kpete]

ABC's "The Path to 9/11"

More disturbing, though, is the way the filmmakers seem determined to link the Clinton administration's missteps to the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Instead of offering us some indication of President Clinton's earnest efforts to stop Osama bin Laden, we're repeatedly treated to his most uneasy moments in the hot seat over Lewinsky, painting the president as a buffoon more interested in blow jobs than terrorists. Meanwhile, Condoleezza Rice gets that fated memo about planes flying into buildings, and makes it very clear to anyone who'll listen just how concerned President Bush is about these terrorist threats -- despite the fact that we're given little concrete evidence of the president's concern or interest in taking action. Maybe my memory fails me, but the only person I remember talking about Osama bin Laden back in 1998 was President Clinton, while the current anti-terrorist stalwarts worked the country into a frenzy over what? Blow jobs. In the end, "The Path to 9/11" feels like an excruciatingly long, winding and deceptive path, indeed.

http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2006/09/01/911_shows/
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[Jacobin]

1. When he got the memo he told the CIA guy who handed it to him:

"Okay, you've covered your ass."

I suppose they won't show that. :shrug:

[NewJeffCT]

2. Don't forget...

when Clinton was president, terrorism was a "phony issue" according to a certain high profile Republican in the Senate.

Nowadays, it's all terror all the time - because appeasing terrorists while acting macho is all they have.