The path to 9/11 (Barone review. Link to movie trailer. Clinton passes on chances to get OBL.)

U.S. News ^ | 8/24/06 | Michael Barone

[frankjr]

Last night I attended a screening of the first half of The Path to 9/11 a film that will be broadcast by ABC in two three-hour segments on September 10 and 11. Two and one-half hours is a long time to sit still watching a film, but this one was gripping and tension-filled and visually dazzling. ...

One gripping scene shows Massoud's forces--and CIA agents surrounding bin Laden's encampments and then being called back when National Security Adviser Sandy Berger refuses to give a go-ahead for the operation. That scene, according to 9/11 commission Chairman Thomas Kean, an adviser to the film, is a conflation of a number of events; during the question period, commission member Richard Ben-Veniste, perhaps the most partisan member of the commission, said that it misrepresented what actually happened. But, as Kean pointed out, the Clinton administration did decline a number of opportunities to get bin Laden. ...

If the question is: Has the struggle in Iraq gone on too long? the answers tend to hurt George W. Bush and the Republicans. If the question is: Who will protect us from those who want to destroy us? the answers tend to help Bush and the Republicans. The London bomb plot and these three films help to shift the focus from the first question to the second.

[frankjr]

Link to Movie Trailer

[frankjr]

oops, forgot hat-tip to http://strata-sphere.com

[OldFriend]

I can barely breathe just reading about OBL being surrounded and Burglar calling off the capture.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Richard Ben-Veniste, perhaps the most partisan member of the commission, said that it misrepresented what actually happened.

Yeah, why not let us be the judge of that?

[Enterprise]

Needs to be a live Freeper thread on those days! Let's ROLL!

[Roccus]

He passed on OBL but not on trying to get ABC to sanitize the film.

[Steely Tom]

Richard Ben-Veniste, perhaps the most partisan member of the commission, said that it misrepresented what actually happened.

And I'm sure he then went on to cite specific facts to support his position.

[Roccus]

Howlin and possibly Peach are supposed to be running one.

[Enterprise]

Outstanding!!

[Roccus]

According to Rush, Benveniste was up in the directors face screaming at him after the showing. I guess it hit a chord>

[patriot_wes]

"One gripping scene shows Massoud's forces--and CIA agents surrounding bin Laden's encampments and then being called back when National Security Adviser Sandy Berger refuses to give a go-ahead for the operation."

The bottom line in a nutshell - compliments of Sandy "the burglar" Berger

[frankjr]

" And I'm sure he then went on to cite specific facts to support his position."

Actually, I think that right after Dick Ben-Dover gave that quote his eyes darted back and forth nervously as he darted out of the room.

[Roccus]

Can't wait to hear the outcome of Clinton's conversation with Iger.

[Enchante]

Oh, yes, a vicious partisan hatchet man like Richard Ben-Veniste would never smear critics, suppress historical facts, or otherwise behave like the perfect Clintonista scumbag...... and of course MSM reporters would never fail to question his presence on the 9/11 Commission or the whitewash of the real record of the Demagogues that people like Ben-Veniste and Jamie Gorelicker have so far been allowed to get away with.......

[Roccus]

This may be coming to an end.

[ladyinred]

The war in Iraq is only a problem because democrats have used it as a political ploy to gain power. It is necessary, and the truth of that needs to somehow get out to voters.

[Roccus]

Good review here

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16621

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Marked and noted on my calendar, BTW.

[Enterprise]

Clinton: "Hey Iger, you have GOT to bail me out on this. Can you edit it or just don't run it?"

Iger: "Excuse me, you are who again?"

[jrooney]

This is a more indepth review of the film from frontpage magazine -

One astonishing sequence in "The Path to 9/11" shows the CIA and the Northern Alliance surrounding Bin Laden’s house in Afghanistan. They're on the verge of capturing Bin Laden, but they need final approval from the Clinton administration in order to go ahead. They phone Clinton, but he and his senior staff refuse to give authorization for the capture of Bin Laden, for fear of political fall-out if the mission should go wrong and civilians are harmed. National Security Adviser Sandy Berger in essence tells the team in Afghanistan that if they want to capture Bin Laden, they'll have to go ahead and do it on their own without any official authorization. That way, their necks will be on the line - and not his. The astonished CIA agent on the ground in Afghanistan repeatedly asks Berger if this is really what the administration wants. Berger refuses to answer, and then finally just hangs up on the agent. The CIA team and the Northern Alliance, just a few feet from capturing Bin Laden, have to abandon the entire mission. Bin Laden and Al Qaeda shortly thereafter bomb the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, killing over 225 men, women, and children, and wounding over 4000. The episode is a perfect example of Clinton-era irresponsibility and incompetence.

This is why we all have a responsibility to talk to any family members, friends, neighbors, coworkers, etc., to educate them about the donks and their view of fighting terrorism ,so they vote GOP this Nov.