ABC Team spreads 9/11 misinformation to students

Which brings the question: why are the wadded up panties over this mostly worn by the Democrats?

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Which brings the question: why are the wadded up panties over this mostly worn by the Democrats?

Because, it was a fictional movie billed as the 'official true story'; because it was bankrolled by a Fundamentalist Christian organization and written by a conservative; because it had inaccuracies which portrayed former cabinet members in a poor light; because it was sent out for review to right-wing writers, bloggers, and pundits, but not left-wing ones.

You may believe that the movie was equally critical of both administrations, but the production and marketing of this movie was solidly to the right-wing.

Cycloptichorn

revel wrote:

so, path to 9/11 beat out the simpsons ...

Apart from the NFL game, Path outpulled EVERYTHING both nights running. Its worth noting little if anything on US television EVER outdraws a well-hyped, live, evening prime time major sporting event. Worth noting as well is that the story was no more flattering to the Bush administration's role in the debacle than it was to the Clinton administration's role, with fact-stretching dramatizations present in both episodes, concerning the people and actions of both administrations; the point made was that the ball was dropped all around. Which brings the question: why are the wadded up panties over this mostly worn by the Democrats?

The show didn't have to be flattering to either bush or clinton, just truthful and it wasn't.

ABC's world-wide advertising for the movie billed it as the 'official true story' of what happened on 9/11.

See for yourself

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aHgbeJu1WGk

Cycloptichorn

Gunga, there has been plenty of links offered to show evidence of how the docudrama was a work of right wing fiction and basically nothing has been offered which refutes that evidence. Enough has been said.

Gunga, there has been plenty of links offered to show evidence of how the docudrama was a work of right wing fiction and basically nothing has been offered which refutes that evidence. Enough has been said.

Cycloptichorn wrote:

ABC's world-wide advertising for the movie billed it as the 'official true story' of what happened on 9/11.

See for yourself

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aHgbeJu1WGk

Cycloptichorn

The they certainly back-tracked at ABC and they should be criticized for that ad.

revel wrote:

Gunga, there has been plenty of links offered to show evidence of how the docudrama was a work of right wing fiction and basically nothing has been offered which refutes that evidence. Enough has been said.

All of those newspaper stories about Sandy Burgler walking out of archives with secret documents stuffed into his socks and jockstrap while the 9/11 commission was in session were just a figment of our imaginations then?

How long did you think these KKKlintonistas were going to be above the law and that nobody was ever going to be allowed to talk about it?

Do you have any idea what would happen to you or me were either of us to get caught walking out of archives with top secret documents which were germaine to an ongoing congressional investigation??

I mean, it's not like they'd throw away the key. There wouldn't BE a key, they'd WELD the bars shut.

"I have heard from other CIA people that there was as many as a dozen incidents, missions, etc. where the will was not there to green-light the operation. And everybody was in place, whether it was a missile attack, a bomb run, an ambush of bin Laden by tribals on the ground, or that they had pinpointed him at Tarnak Farm or his hunting lodge.

There were numerous opportunities. We only focused on one. We used it as sort of an amalgamation of the numerous different opportunities because you can't show a dozen attempts in a movie; and I don't think a lot of people would have been happy if we did that either...."

CYRUS NOWRASTEH
'THE PATH TO 9/11' WRITER, PRODUCER
THE SEAN HANNITY SHOW, SEPT. 8, 2006

9/11 Commission: Clinton Refused to Let CIA Kill Bin Laden

Announcing some of its preliminary findings on Wednesday, the 9/11 Commission has confirmed that President Clinton ordered the CIA to take Osama bin Laden alive or not at all - a directive that made the task of neutralizing the terrorist kingpin infinitely more difficult.

In a statement read at the beginning of Wednesday's session, 9/11 staffer Michael Hurley revealed:

"CIA senior managers, operators and lawyers uniformly said that they read the relevant authorities signed by President Clinton as instructing them to try to capture bin Laden.

"They believed that the only acceptable context for killing bin Laden was a credible capture operation. 'We always talked about how much easier it would have been to try to kill him,'" a former chief of the bin Laden station told the Commission.

"Working level CIA officers were frustrated by what they saw as the policy restraints of having to instruct their assets to mount a capture operation," the Commission statement said.

Commission staffer Hurley detailed one attempt to recruit indigenous Afghan forces in a bin Laden capture operation, explaining, "When Northern Alliance leader Massoud was briefed on the carefully worded instructions for him, the briefer recalled that Massoud laughed and said, 'You Americans are crazy. You guys never change.'"

... Last week NBC News quoted former CIA official Gary Schroen as saying that White House orders to spare bin Laden's life cut the chances of getting him in half, from 50 to 25 percent.

Schroen's revelation - now confirmed by the 9/11 Commission - was ignored by the mainstream press beyond its initial coverage by NBC.

NewsMax.com
Wednesday, Mar. 24, 2004 10:26 AM EST

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701121/posts

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"I have heard from other CIA people that there was as many as a dozen incidents, missions, etc. where the will was not there to green-light the operation. And everybody was in place, whether it was a missile attack, a bomb run, an ambush of bin Laden by tribals on the ground, or that they had pinpointed him at Tarnak Farm or his hunting lodge.

There were numerous opportunities. We only focused on one. We used it as sort of an amalgamation of the numerous different opportunities because you can't show a dozen attempts in a movie; and I don't think a lot of people would have been happy if we did that either...."

CYRUS NOWRASTEH
'THE PATH TO 9/11' WRITER, PRODUCER
THE SEAN HANNITY SHOW, SEPT. 8, 2006

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9/11 Commission: Clinton Refused to Let CIA Kill Bin Laden

Announcing some of its preliminary findings on Wednesday, the 9/11 Commission has confirmed that President Clinton ordered the CIA to take Osama bin Laden alive or not at all - a directive that made the task of neutralizing the terrorist kingpin infinitely more difficult.

In a statement read at the beginning of Wednesday's session, 9/11 staffer Michael Hurley revealed:

"CIA senior managers, operators and lawyers uniformly said that they read the relevant authorities signed by President Clinton as instructing them to try to capture bin Laden.

"They believed that the only acceptable context for killing bin Laden was a credible capture operation. 'We always talked about how much easier it would have been to try to kill him,'" a former chief of the bin Laden station told the Commission.

"Working level CIA officers were frustrated by what they saw as the policy restraints of having to instruct their assets to mount a capture operation," the Commission statement said.

Commission staffer Hurley detailed one attempt to recruit indigenous Afghan forces in a bin Laden capture operation, explaining, "When Northern Alliance leader Massoud was briefed on the carefully worded instructions for him, the briefer recalled that Massoud laughed and said, 'You Americans are crazy. You guys never change.'"

... Last week NBC News quoted former CIA official Gary Schroen as saying that White House orders to spare bin Laden's life cut the chances of getting him in half, from 50 to 25 percent.

Schroen's revelation - now confirmed by the 9/11 Commission - was ignored by the mainstream press beyond its initial coverage by NBC.

NewsMax.com
Wednesday, Mar. 24, 2004 10:26 AM EST

In February 1999,Tenet sought President Clinton's authorization to enlist
Massoud and his forces as partners. In response to this request, the President signed the Memorandum of Notification whose language he personally altered.Tenet says he saw no significance in the President's changes. So far as he was concerned, it was the language of August 1998, expressing a preference for capture but accepting the possibility that Bin Ladin could not be brought out alive."We were plowing the same ground,"Tenet said.171

CIA officers described Massoud's reaction when he heard that the United States wanted him to capture and not kill Bin Ladin. One characterized Massoud's body language as "a wince."