Ok... I've been reading a little bit today about "The Path to 9/11". Nothing sits in my craw worse than dishonesty and hypocricy. And with this upcoming "documentary", I'm fascinated to see if conservatives jump onto it for its dishonesty in the same manner as they did with Michael Moore... or with "The Reagans". I really never suspected anything serious would happen to prevent or change the airing, but I guess I got my wish.
It's being
reported that the following disclaimer will run during every segment of the show:
The following movie is a dramatization that is drawn from a variety of sources including the 9/11 Commission Report and other published materials, and from personal interviews. The movie is not a documentary. For dramatic and narrative purposes, the movie contains fictionalized scenes, composite and representative characters and dialogue, as well as time compression.
Surprisingly, the writer has been pushed into confessing that the script isn't accurate. In one
article we find out:
Mr. Berger’s character is also seen abruptly hanging up during a conversation with a C.I.A. officer at a critical moment of a military operation. In an interview yesterday with KRLA-AM in Los Angeles, Cyrus Nowrasteh, the mini-series’ screenwriter and one of its producers, said that moment had been improvised.
“Sandy Berger did not slam down the phone,” Mr. Nowrasteh said. “That is not in the report. That was not scripted. But you know when you’re making a movie, a lot of things happen on set that are unscripted. Accidents occur, spontaneous reactions of actors performing a role take place. It’s the job of the filmmaker to say, ‘You know, maybe we can use that.’ ”
Even
Bill Clinton got into the act... and it all seems to have gotten some response!
I'm just agog... I still doubt it will get shipped off to a cable channel like "The Reagans" did, and I'm 100% sure that the AM radio assholes will claim this is all the fault of the evil liberal media. In response, I'll point out that there were no patent non-dialog errors in "The Reagans", and it got sent to Showtime with its disputed lines edited out of the airing as well as the DVD. I doubt that will happen with "The Path to 9/11", and I suspect that it will sell like hotcakes on DVD to all the dittoheads and hannity-freaks.
I'll close with a quote from the 9/11 Commission report.
The actual history is quite different. According to the 9/11 Commission Report (pg. 199), then-CIA Director George Tenet had the authority from President Clinton to kill Bin Laden. Roger Cressy, former NSC director for counterterrorism, has written, “Mr. Clinton approved every request made of him by the CIA and the U.S. military involving using force against bin Laden and al-Qaeda.”
Here's some more info if you want to read into this a little further:
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