E&P: reviews edits to scenes of P2911 shown in New Zealand [View All]

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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003119684

"However, the film has already aired in some countries abroad, and one enterprising viewer in New Zealand has put up several clips (with liberal commentary) at YouTube. The clips reveal some significant edits, but by no means the elimination of certain scenes or flashpoints that so alarmed liberal critics and former Clinton officials (and Bill Clinton himself)."
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"The Berger scene, E&P observed via YouTube, remained largely intact -- at least for New Zealand -- but no longer shows him ending the conversation by suddenly cutting the phone call. It does drop some of the on-the-scene shots from Afghanistan that underscored how close we were to bin Laden's camp. (That may be because, according to the 9/11 Commission, this specific episode did not take place.) The scene still cuts directly to Afghan rebel Massood calling Americans "cowards."

The Albright scene has new dialogue, and some old dialogue cut, but still indicts her for telling Pakistan about the attack, as required since cruise missiles had to go over Pakistani territory and might have set off nuclear fears, Albright explains.

Another key scene, in which a composite CIA agent named "Kirk" complains about Clinton's lack of action, is now softened somewhat in the dialogue, but still cuts to the president's famous assertion that he did not have "sexual relations" with Monica Lewinsky. In the new edit, Richard Clarke, the terror expert, now says that Clinton's people had assured him that the president was not distracted from terrorism by the sex scandal. "