"Path to 9/11" Part 2 - Live Notes From Althecat In NZ

[althecat]

... part 2 is about to begin...

We just had an IV with Dylan Avery about Loose Change to lead into it.

:)

[althecat]

1. ... see part 1 here....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2096331

[renate]

2. thank you so much, althecat!

:yourock:

[althecat]

3. Opens with Bush and his pet goat....

Cut to the scarved hijackers with their boxcutters. Cut to Air Traffic Control. Cut to betty ong's phone call. Cut to Air Traffic alling for a fighter scramble.

Picture of fighter jet in the air!!!!!

(ok... 9 minutes to get completely fictional.)

Then we go back into history to the USS Cole

[althecat]

4. Harvey goes to Yemen....

[althecat]

5. Maimed servicemen on stretchers meet Harvey.

Barbara Bodine... ambassador (democratic appointed presumably) complete control freak. Wants the women g-men to button their shirts. She gets a dressing down from Harvey. "Mr O'Neil you are the epitome of the ugly american." "I am just trying to do my job."

[SoCalDem]

6. Did you see my fan letter?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2104402

SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts)

Dear ABC/Disney: ..Wow-Just Wow!!

I was riveted to the set tonight as I watched your pilot. This series "has legs".. I was getting a bit tired of the "housewives"..and "lost" is getting a bit creepy, so this new series you got planned for fall just might be the ticket.

And what a coup to get Harvey Keitel to star in a tv series..Did you drug him before the contract was signed, or do you have some "pictures" of him?

Here's hoping you can retain the rest of the cast for the fall season. I guess Ray's wife is free, now that Ray "moved on".. This show is more up her alley anyway, since she's digging that fundamentalist stuff like the writers/producers are into..Maybe in an episode you could throw in a scene where she's pregnant and Clinton kidnaps her and tries to make her have an abortion.. That would make for boffo ratings..

I can't wait for tomorrow's episode.. That's the one where the flying monkeys are featured..right? Whose ass do they fly out of?

[countmyvote4real]

9. Wow. Did you really send that?

Even if you didn't, I love you for writing it down and posting it. (slaps, hugs, whatever)

[SoCalDem]

11. I tried to email it to ABC, BUT

they have a 500 character limit :boo/hiss:.. I may print it up and snail mail it.. At least the people in the mail room might get a laugh or two.:hi:

[countmyvote4real]

17. Quick. Copyright it first. Then send it. n/t

[SoCalDem]

19. Copyright?? I didn't write it to make any money

:)

[Roland99]

47. I bet with some minor editing you could squeeze that under 500 chars.!

[Chiyo-chichi]

53. I love it! Send it to some people directly. Here are some addresses:

Jonathan Hogan is the Media Relations Publicist in charge of Path to 911. His e-mail address is [e-mail].
Patrick Preblick worked with him: [e-mail]
as did these folks at mPRm Public Relations:
Tom Chen, Theresa Black, and Jennifer McIntosh:
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

I would also cc these folks:

ABC PRIMETIME SERIES
contact: Hope Hartman
tel: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

ABC BROADCAST PUBLICITY
contact: Terry Mitchell Collier
tel: [phone]
fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

ABC PRIMETIME/SALES/MARKETING/ AFFILIATE RELATIONS
contact: Susan Sewell
tel: [phone]
fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

RATINGS/VIEWERSHIP
contact: Jeff Lindsey
tel: [phone]
fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

http://abcmedianet.com/pressrel/dispDNR.html?id=083106_01
http://www.abcmedianet.com/net_contacts/netcontacts_index.shtml

[althecat]

7. Richard Clark asks for permission to attack Al Qaeda everywhere...

William Cohen vascillates.
Albright says you need to follow international law.
Sandy Berger blames George Tenet. "Where was the intelligence".
Tenet slams down his book walks out.

Albright: "We all admire your zeal on this issue Richard we do. But there are other considerations. We cannot make peace while we are bombing muslims."

Berger: "Dick there is an election in three weeks." - we will be accused of doing this for the election.

Meeting closes with Berger telling Clark to get the CIA working with their drones on targets.

Clark apologises to O'Neil for the amnassador.

[althecat]

8. They have bin laden on video with a predator drone...

... but the technology fails. The drone gets shot down. Tenet throws another tantrum.

[althecat]

10. Cut to Ahmed Masood in Afghanistan...

.. he wants real arms to fight bin-laden & the Taliban. Complains that he is being sent trinkets.

[althecat]

12. 911 Hijackers get a briefing in Afghanistan at al Qaeda camp

... George Bush vs Al Gore tv footage. Anybody's guess who will win.

Hijackers learn to fly at flying school in the states. Two students leave a plane in the middle of a runway. An FAA investigator is a bit pissed.

Al Gore announces that Bush is the new President.

[althecat]

13. John O'Neil lost his breifcase and then got it back....

He seems to be in deep shit.

[althecat]

14. Condoleezza Rice meets with Richard Clark

Clark seeks more effort on Predator and in afghanistan.

Condi Rice ignores him and restructures his behind into cyber terrorism.

[althecat]

15. O'Neil and Clark meet to discuss getting shut down by their superiors.

"We are not safe yet and no one seems to care," says O'Neil.

[althecat]

16. CIA Jim Fielding meets John O'Neil.

..Shows him pictures from Kuala Lumpar of possible terrorists. CIA refuses to share identities of people in the photos. Taunts O'Neil about his briefcase. O'Neil is seriously pissed. Gets a galss of water.

July 4 2001 hijackers enter the US.

[althecat]

18. Pheonix memo is dictated by Ken Williams.

.. it gets received in Hoover building.

Some big fat guy says, "Lets table it and keep it routine."

[althecat]

20. Angry visitor to US (hijacker) shouts at INS officer...

He suspects him of being a saudi hitman and wants to chuck him. His colleague tells him that he has to be polite to Saudis.

The officer ignores his colleague and gets shouted at some more. His colleague tells him, "ok, you are taking the heat on it."

[althecat]

21. Moussaoui replaces the angry shouter...

He raises suspicions at a flight school. The owners call in the the FBI... Colleen Rowley is on the case.

His flatmate wants him arrested. He has lots of money and tells his flatmate he wants to kill civilians.

FBI officer asks him is he can look at his laptop.

Moussaoui says no.

"Please stand up," G-man says to Moussaoui.

Colleen rings O'Neil. She wants to get into his laptop. Washington is stalling. She has offshore info confirming Moussaoui is dangerous been to Chechnya and Afghanistan. The higherups stop her from looking at the computer.

O'Neil, "Its like Bin Laden has a mole inside the FBI. He doesn't need one though."

Rowley seeks a warrant to open the laptop. An FBI big wig keeps saying no.

O'Neil has quit.

He leaves the building.

[althecat]

22. Masood holds a press conference.

He is really pissed off that Clinton has given $130 million and Bush $43 million to the Taliban. That money is controlled by OBL, he says. Masood warns his contact that AQ is coming after the US. He says, "If they kill me then you will know they are coming" that will be the signal.

(This is getting really weird..)

[althecat]

23. 1hour 10mins gone... THIS IS APPROX WHERE BUSH MAKES HIS SPEECH

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0609/S00146.htm

Tomorrow’s episode of the Path to 9/11 will be interrupted part-way through by the President’s address to the nation at 9pm EST. Just which 16-18 minute segment of the docudrama comes at an hour into the docudrama you, Down Under, will know before I do.

[althecat]

24. If anyone is reading this... FEEL FREE TO REC. IT...

:)

[StrictlyRockers]

27. Thank you allthecat!! For watching this craptastic stinker for us

so we don't have to!!

With everything else we have heard about, it sounds like this series will go over like a lead balloon. It takes real skills to make a good tv producton. You need good writing, directing, talent, production, post-prouction, set, crew, designers, etc, etc. A lot goes into it. This was much ado about nothing cuz no one wants to watch poorly-done, grade C trash...which is what this is. ABC will also have to pay at some point down the road for airing this partisan hack-job two months before a tough election.

I appreciate you allthecat!

Thanks for taking one for the team!

[althecat]

25. PDB Condi reads it at her desk...

.. she looks worried. (Note: you just see the text of the PDB in closeup.. if you are a wingnut you may not know what it is.)

CIA is swamped with warnings about something big happening.

O'Neil reads in the paper about him being investigated by the FBI. Long face. Attends a dinner at Windows on the World restaurant.

He announces his new job as head of security at the WTC.

[MetaTrope]

50. Wow, now there's a jump!

So they DON'T mention all the shit that went down in the first 2 months of Bush's presidency--removing the strike force, shutting down Able Danger, refusing to follow through on international efforts to freeze terrorist financing. All those little things that made the Bush administration look DIRECTLY complicit with al-Queda. No, suddenly it's all CIA, FBI, and then poor Condi "suddenly" getting the memo after a jump in time of 7 months?

Oh, yeah, this shit sure is devastating to Bush. :eyes:

[althecat]

26. CUT to KSM in Madrid

.. he dispatches notification of the date of the attack to Osama bin Laden by courier.

[althecat]

28. ,... meanwhile Back in Afghanistan

.. message gets delivered.

Massood warns CIA by phone that an attack is about to come. "Hijackers, aviation, inside the USA."

The officers line superior wants more details however.

[althecat]

29. Condi meets with Richard Clark and George tenet.

Condi asks abot predator.

Tennet says that the CIA thinks killing OBL with a missile will be ilegal.

Richard Clark is very pissed off.

[althecat]

30. Masood is assasinated by a TV crew.

[althecat]

31. CIA Kirk is very upset...

[althecat]

32. (50 mins to go.....) Hijackers in Portland Maine prepare on Sept 10

Hijackers buy boxcutters. One prepares with a ritual wash and a prayer.

(This is getting very LOTR.. the lion of Panjeer is dead.... the warriors prepare to do battle for their god.)

[althecat]

33. Atta gets his boarding pass - O'Neil turns up for work..

We are back to the opening scenes from part 1.

[althecat]

34. Hijackers stick on their scarves.. get their boxcutters out and move...

... forward to cockpit. (Iin slow motion fading in and out of focus.. cue the spooky music.)

[althecat]

35. Flight 11 is not responding.

Betty Ong calls (Opening scene from part 2).

8.37am NORAD gets notified... asks if its an exercise.

O'Neil arrives in his office.

United 175 is also hijacked. NORAD is confused asks which flight is being hijacked. Both says FAA.

[althecat]

36. O'Neil looks out his windo a plane has hit Tower 1

[althecat]

37. In the hallway an announcer tells people to return to desks...

O'neil tells people to leave anyway. TO ignore the annincement.

Chaos in the streets.

FAA want to get the military involved. They are informed that Flight 77 is not responding.

Everybody is on their cellphone. Nobody isgetting through. Tower 1 burns. O'Neil gets through to his son. Tells him he loves him.

[althecat]

38. 2nd building is hit. O'Neil arrives at bottom of WTC1.

[althecat]

39. Cut to white house... Dick Cheney has grown a whole lot of hair.

Condi asks Dick Clark for advice.
Secret Service evacuate Dick Cheney to a bunker.

Cut to bunker.

FAA's Jane Garvey is on tele conference.

Cut to FAA Cleveland Center.

Can't reach flight 93.

Cut to George Bush talking to a press conference.
(OOOPS.... isn't he still talking about a goat - before going awol?)

Flight 93 calls get through to family members.

Cut back to George Bush "May god bless the victims their families and america."

Jane Garvey: We have reports of 11 flights either not responding.

Clark: Where are the fighters.

General: Detroit.

Clark: We need shoot down authority.

Some ditto head: Shoot down authority has to come from the president.

Some mother talks to her husband on flight 93.

Pentagon gets hit.

Fighters are now up want to know what their orders are.

[renate]

54. Bwahahahaha! "...cheney has grown a whole lot of hair"

:rofl:

You're a hero for watching this steaming pile and giving us the synopsis.

Thank you so much!

:yourock:

[althecat]

40. Dick Cheney with hair "The President Has Just Given Me Shoot Down Order."

(note this is b4 flight 93 has crashed... pure fiction we know as a result of NORAD tapes.)

People are jumping off the building.

O'Neil is climbing the stairs to heaven.

Cue romantic music. Firemen sweating. O'Neil climbs up through dripping water.

O'neil looks blank. Spooky noise. Black screen. Building collapses. TV reporter looks on in horror.

[althecat]

41. 9.59. Rice, Clark, Cheney with Hair look dumbfounded.

[althecat]

42. Meanwhile back on flight 93.

"A group of us have voted. If we are going to die we have to do something."

Mother hugs her baby.

Flight 93 disappears off the scope.

[althecat]

43. Graded Reccomendations from 911 commisison Follow.

then

"we beleive that the terrorosts will strike again..."

[althecat]

44. DISCLAIMER.... roll credits

[jbnow]

49. Thanks. I'm surprised they included

Condi ignoring Richard Clark or he and O'Neil feeling their warnings were ignored.

I haven't read details about part 1 yet (except that it was poorly done and seemed more ant-rights than anti-Clinton)) and I didn't see it.

Thanks for sharing

[annabanana]

45. Thanks for the thumbnail..

They are shameless

[leftchick]

46. thank you al!

You know it is bad enough that they are even playing this crappy piece of shit movie. But to actually play it on Sept. 11 is just disgusting.

[Roland99]

48. Sounds like the only thing factual is that the attacks happened.

:eyes:

[autorank]

51. althecate, thank you . you watch so we don't have to....

:yourock:

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

52. Dick Cheney with hair...LOL! Thanks for sitting through and summing up

this fiasco.

:pals: MKJ