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September 07, 2006
Why the Left Hates "The Path to 9-11"
Not a word from these critics about the program's greatest strength, which is in the accurate rendering of the enemy, and the warning it might give about the need for continual vigilance.
Critics of the program want to argue that a five hour program has collapsed eight years too brusquely. There is, by the way, zero mention in the five hours of the allegations that Clinton let bin Laden slip through his fingers when the terror chief was offered up by Sudan. There is no Atta meeting in Prague, no suggestion of a Saddam history of terror ties unrelated to 9/11 -- in short, there is no reaching by the writer/producers/director. It is an objective show, and not one that will cheer the right. But any show that does not praise Clinton or hopelessly conflate the eight years of the Clinton tenure with the eight months of the pre-9/11 Bush Administration is to be condemned.
"The Path to 9/11" is a faithful and compelling recreation within the limits of the craft of the fatal nonchalance of the '90s, combined with a salute to the hard-working men and women who struggled against the bureaucratic insanities of that era, represented chiefly in the person of FBI Agent John O'Neill, played by Harvey Keitel, and a supporting cast of brave and never-discouraged lower level Bureau and CIA operatives who understood the risks. In trying to deep-six the series, the Clinton forces are trying to silence their story.
To read the rest of Hugh Hewitt's article, please click here.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at September 7, 2006 09:15 AM
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"'The Path to 9/11' is a faithful and compelling recreation..."
I'm guessing from this that you're one of the faithful "right wing bloggers" who actually got to see this in advanced. How comforting it must have been for you. Tell me, how does "faithful and compelling" fit with the fact that an FBI agent, acting as advisor, quit half way through production, aggrevated by the obvious fiction and bias? I guess he was another one of those "lefties" in the FBI.
"there is no Atta meeting in Prague." This is perhaps the most truthful statement you've made here and is perhaps one point where the Path to 9/11 and the 9/11 Commission Report agree.
From the 9-11 Commission "Staff Statement 16":
We have examined the allegation that Atta met with an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague on April 9. Based on the evidence available -- including investigation by Czech and U.S. authorities plus detainee reporting -- we do not believe that such a meeting occurred.
Posted by: theBhc at September 7, 2006 01:07 PM
Forgive the secondary post, but I also wanted to address another of your specious offerings, that of the fiction that Sudan "offered up bin Laden." Here too, your absorption of Rush Limbaugh's fictional trope has clouded your examination of just what the 9/11 commission found, which, as far as bin Laden, Sudan and Bill Clinton are concerned, was nothing. According to Staff Statement 5 of the 9/11 commission report, there was no "reliable evidence" that Sudan had ever made an offer like you and Sean Hannity have claimed.
I guess when one watches nothing but Fox News, this is the kind of thing that will happen.
Posted by: theBhc at September 7, 2006 01:15 PM
I'm delighted this is scheduled to air right on the heels of the Plame case imploding.
Posted by: Jeremiah at September 7, 2006 05:29 PM