The following movie is a dramatization that is drawn from a variety of sources including the 9/11 Commission Report and other published materials, and from personal interviews. The movie is not a documentary. For dramatic and narrative purposes, the movie contains fictionalized scenes, composite and representative characters and dialogue, as well as time compression.Yeah -- no shit the movie contains fictionalized scenes. Bill Clinton is pretty angry over this whole deal:
Meanwhile, it is now being reported that an FBI agent who was working on the mini-series as a consultant quit halfway through the production because "he believed the writers and producers were 'making things up.'"A furious Bill Clinton is warning ABC that its mini-series "The Path to 9/11" grossly misrepresents his pursuit of Osama bin Laden - and he is demanding the network "pull the drama" if changes aren't made.
Clinton pointedly refuted several fictionalized scenes that he claims insinuate he was too distracted by the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal to care about bin Laden and that a top adviser pulled the plug on CIA operatives who were just moments away from bagging the terror master, according to a letter to ABC boss Bob Iger obtained by The Post.
The former president also disputed the portrayal of then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as having tipped off Pakistani officials that a strike was coming, giving bin Laden a chance to flee.
"The content of this drama is factually and incontrovertibly inaccurate and ABC has the duty to fully correct all errors or pull the drama entirely," the four-page letter said.
Even the head of a conservative media watchdog group has stated that ABC should "correct" the scenes "that do not have any bearing on reality." I wasn't going to watch the show, but now I might have to. It will be interesting to see how ABC responds to all this pressure.
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