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Phillip Dampier:
I would tell your conservative friends that nobody is "afraid" of ABC airing this program.  Rather, more than 120,000 Americans plus conservative and liberal activists have criticized it for claiming to be based on the findings of the 9/11 Commission when, in fact, it is filled with invented scenes and several defamatory falsehoods attributed to former Clinton administration officials.

At a time when the people of the United States should be coming together, regardless of political affiliations, to mark this solemn occasion, a group of very partisan avowed conservatives have sought instead to create a documentary 60 days before an election that seeks to place virtually all of the blame for the September 11th attacks on former President Bill Clinton, and through the direct use of GOP Talking Points, the Democratic party.

Anyone who saw Harrison Ford in Clear and Present Danger will recall their emotional stirrings watching a slithery administration official respond to pleas by Willem Dafoe's character to send in forces to rescue American soldiers by quietly just hanging up the phone on him.  It is the ultimate insult, a callous disregard for doing the right thing.  And in Path to 9/11, this scene is repeated, only it literally attributes it to an actual Clinton Administration official by name and leaves viewers with the impression that actually happened.  And it never did.

As a statement from the 9/11 families has said, any production that purports to document the happenings that led to the deaths of their loved ones should be handled with the greatest care for the truth so that such an event can never happen again.  And this production doesn't even come close.

If ABC wants to air a fictional docudrama like this, then the names should be changed to represent fictional characters or a disclaimer should appear regularly throughout the program that this is not based on the findings of the 9/11 Commission and viewers should not intepret the production as a factual program, but rather the personal opinion and views of the filmmakers.  Instead, ABC first sold this as a factual presentation and has only recently changed their tune to suggest scenes are made up.  But it is still telling viewers it is based on the 9/11 Commission Report.

And now new information has come out about the people who made this film.  It seems they are on a mission, so the end result Path to 9/11 turns out to have been no accident.  Read: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/discover-the-secret-right_b_29015.html for more details.

If ABC wants to air this on ABC Family, its basic cable network, sometime well after 9/11 (preferably after the election if ABC is honest in its claim that it is not a political program), that's fine with me.

I think a far better tribute to the fifth anniversary of September 11th would be interviews with the families directly impacted to see how they have gotten on in the past five years.

Phillip Dampier:
LEADING HISTORIANS CALL FOR CANCELLATION OF “FRAUDULENT” ABC 9/11 DOCUMDRAMA
Call Flagrant Falsehoods Gross Disservice to the Public

CHICAGO, IL -- SEPTEMBER 8, 2006 – A group of leading American historians today sent the following letter to Mr. Robert Iger of ABC. Signatories include Pulitzer Prize winner Arthur Schlesinger and Sean Wilentz, Princeton University, this year's winner of the Bancroft Prize, the American history profession's highest honor. Stressing the significance of the “traumatic” events of 9/11, the signers of this letter are calling on Mr., Iger to stand up for responsible media treatments of such important historical moments and withdraw the program from circulation.

The text of the letter follows:

Dear Robert Iger:

We write as professional historians, who are deeply concerned by the continuing reports about ABC’s scheduled broadcast of “The Path to 9/11.” These reports document that this drama contains numerous flagrant falsehoods about critical events in recent American history. The key participants and eyewitnesses to these events state that the script distorts and even fabricates evidence into order to mislead viewers about the responsibility of numerous American officials for allegedly ignoring the terrorist threat before 2000.
The claim by the show’s producers, broadcaster, and defenders, that these falsehoods are permissible because the show is merely a dramatization, is disingenuous and dangerous given their assertions that the show is also based on authoritative historical evidence. Whatever ABC’s motivations might be, broadcasting these falsehoods, connected to the most traumatic historical event of our times, would be a gross disservice to the public. A responsible broadcast network should have nothing to do with the falsification of history, except to expose it. We strongly urge you to halt the show’s broadcast and prevent misinforming Americans about their history.

Sincerely,
Arthur Schlesinger
Sean Wilentz, Princeton University
Michael Kazin, Georgetown University
Lizbeth Cohen, Harvard University,
Nicholas Salvatore, Cornell University;
Ted Widmer, Washington College;
Rick Perlstein, Independent Scholar;
David Blight, Yale University;
Eric Alterman, City University of New York.

injest:
It is noon on Sat...it is due to be aired tomorrow night (after an address by Bush no less!! what a fortunate coincidence) and the ABC officials are saying THEY have not even seen a 'final edit' PLEASE!! is any other movie being edited less that a day away from being aired? How many other movies are cleared for broadcast before the ABC people even see it??

I am disgusted with them...

Shuggy:

--- Quote from: Phillip on September 08, 2006, 09:59:39 am --- "Clinton is treating terrorism as a law enforcement problem" followed by deep sighs and rolling eyes)

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I have said since 12/9 (as it was here) that the Twin Towers crashes were a crime, not an act of war, because no other country was involved. My respect for Clinton goes up, if only that were true.

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