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September 25, 2007
More on Suppressed Path to 9/11 DVD
National Review has more on the suppression of Path to 9/11's DVD release.
You might recall that Harry Reid and other Democrat thugs threatened to go after ABC's broadcasting license for daring to show the miniseries, which neglected to gloss over Bill Clinton's failure to take responsibility regarding Islamic terrorism. The show didn't flatter W either, but Republicans don't insist that the media refrain from presenting them in a negative light.
NR backs up Path to 9/11's credentials:
Because ABC insisted that Cyrus [Nowrasteh, the writer] accompany each scene with no less than two footnotes and two sources to verify that the assertions were true, the annotation he turned in was 50 pages longer than the script itself. ABC, their lawyers, and fact-checkers approved the script, and it went into production. […]
Michael Scheuer, former chief of the OBL unit at the CIA's counterterrorist center sent ABC News an e-mail, claiming, "the core of the movie is irrefutably true: the Clinton administration had 10 chances to capture or kill Bin Laden."
Gary Schroen, former CIA field agent who was the first American into Afghanistan after 9/11, said publicly, "…the movie is remarkably accurate." He also maintains that there were 13 such opportunities to capture Bin Laden. Lt. Col. Robert Patterson, chief White House military aide to President Clinton, said, "In terms of conveying how the Clinton administration handled its opportunities to get bin Laden, it's 100 percent factually correct… I was there with Clinton and Berger and watched the missed opportunities occur."
But after Bill Clinton denounced the movie as "lies in there parading as truth," CNN came to the rescue:
Wolf Blitzer provided Sandy Berger and William Cohen prime time on CNN in order to disparage the movie and demand that it be pulled off the air. None of them had in fact, viewed the film, which de facto prevented them from "lying" about it. In Berger's interview, Blitzer even failed to inquire about the 2003 incident, in which Berger stole original documents from the national archives, destroyed them, and then lied about it. It would have been a valuable and highly pertinent part of the interview, since Berger was in fact sent by Clinton, ostensibly to prepare for their testimony at the 9/11 Commission, and since Berger pled guilty to charges in April of 2005. Apparently there wasn't space to squeeze in a bit of worthwhile information, since interviewer and interviewee were set on discussing a movie both have admittedly not seen. In their own words, "only on CNN."
In a memorable scene of the miniseries, bin Laden escapes because Berger is too much of a useless bureauweenie to okay a strike.
It's a miracle the miniseries aired at all, although three minutes were censored to placate Harry Reid and his fellow goons. But the DVD remains in limbo long after it should have been released, though given the higher viewership of the miniseries, it stands to make an estimated $200 million.
Apparently Disney/ABC would rather forego the fortune than risk the wrath of Hillary Clinton before an election.
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at September 25, 2007 12:01 PM
