Review of "Path to 9/11" by a liberal TV critic.

[Dem2theMax]

I wanted to post this in case anyone wants to write to Mr. Laurence and give him the FACTS. Normally, this man is dead on, always going after the FCC, speaking up about free speech, you name it. Don't know what happened here, but Bob needs the facts and I hope DU'ers will help him out. If you prove he's wrong, he'll write about it, albeit too late to pull this review.


'Path to 9/11' familiar yet enlightening

San Diego UNION-TRIBUNE
September 8, 2006

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We can only watch with a growing, appalling sense of dread. We know how this chain of events is going to turn out. We know that no matter how many right decisions are made, the wrong ones will win out, and the nation will lose.

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Nevertheless, the film bears watching, not only because it attains a level of quality seldom seen in TV docudramas, but also because it teaches a valuable lesson in the price to be paid for hubris, ignorance, indecision and avoidance of responsibility at the highest levels of government.

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It has come under attack, however, from former members of the Clinton administration who have challenged its accuracy. Former antiterrorism chief Richard Clarke told The New York Times that a scene where CIA agents are stopped by Washington officials from grabbing Osama bin Laden is “utterly invented.” 9/11 Commission member Richard Ben-Veniste told the Times that while former President Bill Clinton is depicted as stopping a CIA attempt to kill bin Laden, he in fact did give the go-ahead.

“The content of this drama is factually and incontrovertibly inaccurate, and ABC has a duty to fully correct all errors or pull the drama entirely,” Clinton Foundation head Bruce Lindsey and Clinton adviser Douglas Band wrote in a letter to the network.

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Please go read the entire review. He does give us a fuller picture of the film that anything I've read previously. But Bob needs to know who made this film, he needs to know about all the distortion of facts and the bald faced lies. He needs to know who is behind the film. Help the guy out, won't you? :)


http://www.signonsandiego.com/entertainment/remote/20060908-9999-1c08remote2.html

Robert P. Laurence: [phone]; [e-mail].

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. That guy gives you the sense that Richard Clark is lying & covering

up the truth that is depicted in the movie. That guy is a nut.

[babylonsister]

2. Liberal? Really? Check this out (he loves Malick):

http://www.signonsandiego.com/entertainment/remote/20060728-9999-lz1c28remote.html

[orleans]

3. "docudrama" bullshit. it's the "official true story" bob--see for yourself

http://cosmosweb09.bcst.re2.yahoo.com/scp_v3/viewer/index.php?pid=16469&rn=240896&cl=793700&ch=717424

(at least the ads in australia say it is)