Three From Clinton Administration Urge Disney to Cancel or Revise 9/11 Miniseries (Must Watch)

New York Times ^ | September 7, 2006 | JESSE McKINLEY

[Libloather]

Three From Clinton Administration Urge Disney to Cancel or Revise Sept. 11 Miniseries
By JESSE McKINLEY
Published: September 7, 2006

Three members of the Clinton administration have written the chairman of the Walt Disney Company, ABC’s parent, to complain that the network’s coming two-part miniseries “The Path to 9/11” is fraught with factual errors and fabrications.

The letters ask that the five-hour movie, scheduled for broadcast Sunday and Monday, be either edited for accuracy or canceled, and ABC gave a small indication yesterday that some changes might be made.

One of the officials, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, said in her letter to the Disney chairman, Robert A. Iger, that although she had requested a copy of the film, ABC had not given her one. But, Ms. Albright said, she has been told by people who have seen it that it “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,” she wrote.

The concerns of Ms. Albright, as well as those in letters from Samuel R. Berger, former national security Adviser, and Bruce Lindsey, a Clinton White House aide who is now chief executive of the Clinton Foundation, were echoed yesterday by several Democratic members of Congress.

ABC, meanwhile, continued to explain that the miniseries, though largely drawn from the report of the Sept. 11 commission, was a dramatization, not a documentary.

But the network appeared to be leaving the door open to last-minute changes in t the film, which cost almost $40 million and is to be shown without any advertisements.

“It is common practice to continue to make edits to strengthen a project right up to the broadcast date,” said Hope Hartman, an ABC spokeswoman.

[MJY1288]

LOL, Yes it was a blue dress. Mind me, it's late and I'm tired :-)

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Wonder if Sandy gets busted for trying to sneak a copy out of Blockbuster inside his pants.

[kcvl]

Madeleine Albright, Sandy(pants) Berger and Bruce Lindsey, the same people who stood in the way when we should have gotten Bin Laden! It' amazing how far these people will go to keep the country from knowing the truth!!!

I bet those telephones among the Clintonites have been burning up!

[A CA Guy]

Sandy is lucky not to be serving 10-20 years for a felony.
We all know that.

[Lancey Howard]

“It is common practice to continue to make edits to strengthen a project right up to the broadcast date,” said Hope Hartman, an ABC spokeswoman.

Oh boy. I smell a weasel coming.

[Lancey Howard]

Sandy is lucky not to be serving 10-20 years for a felony.

Nah. If you or I walked out of the National Archives with our socks and underwear stuffed with classified documents and then later destroyed those documents, we would get the same slap on the wrist that this scumbag Berger got. Wouldn't we?

[Dallas59]

“Sept. 11 is not ‘entertainment,’ it is reality,” Ms. Albright wrote Mr. Iger. “Before you air your broadcast, I trust you will ensure you have the facts right.”...

Threats?

[tomnbeverly]

Maybe it will show what Berger shoved down his pants in the National Archives... Clinton is the cause of 911 so let it be written so let it be done.... I really wish one of the 911 victims would open up a lawsuit against Clinton for failure to act against the terrorist agression in the 90's which allowed 911 to transpire... would make great theater.

[ConservativeMind]

Makes me want to watch!

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

If I were paranoid, I'd agree that Halfwit's note sounds like a threat. But given the fact that it is Halfwit, I'm more of the mind that it's a reminder of what ugly dress she was wearing at what reception.

[weegee]

One of the officials, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, said in her letter to the Disney chairman, Robert A. Iger, that although she had requested a copy of the film, ABC had not given her one. But, Ms. Albright said, she has been told by people who have seen it that it “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,” she wrote.

The concerns of Ms. Albright, as well as those in letters from (CONVICTED THIEF) Samuel R. Berger, former national security Adviser, and Bruce Lindsey, a Clinton White House aide who is now chief executive of the Clinton Foundation, were echoed yesterday by several Democratic members of Congress.

STUFF IT!

[weegee]

Clinton diddled while America burned.

[weegee]

"Facts are funny things."

[Libloather]

It's amazing how far these people will go to keep the country from knowing the truth!!!

Someone will Tivo this - and record it to DVD. Once that happens, Madame Dimwit will be answering those 'awkward' questions forever (and she knows it...)

[weegee]

She's confusing an anniversary docudrama with a FAKE BUT ACCURATE news broadcast during an election year.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

They've hit the panic button on this documentary. Must be accurate and nails Bubba and his coterie.

[Mike Darancette]

These guys a squealing like stuck pigs, methinks that the show may be on to something.

[weegee]

A number of screener copies were reviewed.

If there are edits, the screeners will still preserve the original intent. And if one of those were to get out to the masses, it would only highlight the concerns of the Clinton administration which has done all they could to supress their failings.

[weegee]

The photo in post #31 is pretty damning on its own.

The public has been lied to for far too long.

I put some network tv on this week and hadn't seen it in years. ICK!

I don't have tivo but I do have a DVR system. I may record this for later viewing (and skimming).

[JennysCool]

They're trying to close the barn door after every horse has left the premises. Review copies (like the one Rush saw and owns) are already out. If they do make cuts, someone with access to the original will have all the cut footage up on the Web before Part Two finishes airing, so everyone can see what the Clinton faction found so objectionable.

I'm thinking Albright and the rest would have been far better off just letting things be.