Posted on 09/08/2006 12:35:29 AM PDT by STARWISE
ABC plans to make minor changes to its docudrama on the run-up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in response to heated complaints from former Clinton administration officials that a number of scenes are fabricated, a network executive said yesterday.
Thomas H. Kean, the Republican who chaired the 9/11 commission and is a co-executive producer of the film, said in an interview that he recently asked for changes that would address complaints raised by the former aides to President Bill Clinton and that ABC is considering his request.
"These are people of integrity," Kean said of the filmmakers. "I know there are some scenes where words are put in characters' mouths. But the whole thing is true to the spirit of 9/11."
The ABC executive said the "adjustments and refinements" are "intended to make clearer that it was general indecisiveness" by federal officials that left the country vulnerable to terrorist attacks, "not any one individual."
The executive, who requested anonymity because the network is making only written comments, said small revisions have been underway for weeks.
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Democrats ratcheted up the pressure yesterday. Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) and four Democratic colleagues wrote to Robert Iger, chief executive of the Walt Disney Co., ABC's corporate parent, urging him to cancel the movie. The Democratic National Committee obtained more than 100,000 signatures on a petition demanding cancellation. Jay Carson, a spokesman for former president Bill Clinton, called ABC's plan to air the movie "despicable."
The six-hour docudrama, scheduled for broadcast Sunday and Monday, depicts such former Clinton officials as Madeleine K. Albright, Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger and Richard Clarke as undermining efforts to capture or kill Osama bin Laden.
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This also drags out an electoral issue devastating to Democrats - Elect Democrats and your country is vulnerable to attack.
Democrats would not be so furious if they didn't appreciate their own politicial weakness on national security.
The truth might have upset Hillary's Presidential ambitions. God forbid the voter connect terror attacks with Bill's sociopathic behavior.
It's very sad that ABC can be dictated to by a rapist.
Looks like Clinton still has Veto Power.
Those files are just what we caught them with. Who knows or who would want to assume they don't have other stuff. The only safe assumption is the Clinton's can drag out whatever is hidden in anyone's closet.
Well maybe you can tell us rubes exactly how this is an accident......http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3885549d11e2.htm
and then offer us tips on how not to fall off the turnip truck while you're at it!!!
Definition of character...
Clinton Vs Disney....Disney...most definitely a "mickey mouse!"
"So what are they threatening ABC/Disney with ?
Libel, slander ?"
There was a post last night referrincing a letter sent by some of the dem leadership that made several not so discrete references to ABC's access to the airwaves.
So let me get this straight...the radical Liberal Party has no problem with the nationwide reporting of a blatant lie...*cough* Valerie Plame *cough* that embarassed this administration...but they turn into Soviet Era censors when a story is truthfully told that puts a former Democrat in a bad light?
WTF???
These people are so damn focused on how this story portrays their demi-God BJ Bill...that they don't even realize that it portrays the Bush Administration as just as bad when it came to handling bin Laden prior to 9/11!
This blatant and shameful attempt by the Clintonistas to rewrite history defies description.
***Bravo, I think your post makes an excellent point!***
How did he get them?
Ever hear of a Xerox machine? Scanner?
I'm sure the West Wing is full of them.
Great points. And don't forget their punative use of the IRS! And they've managed to destroy Tom DeLay's political career too for the impeachment revenge.
The only thing I'd add to your excellent post is that if the previous administration had shown this kind effort in their foreign policy, we wouldn't have Iranian and NK Nukes and we wouldn't have had to go after Saddam in 2003 either.
guys=guy's
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