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AP ABC airs edited 9/11 miniseries By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer Mon Sep 11, 4:57 PM ET NEW YORK - Editing changes made by ABC to the first part of its miniseries "The Path to 9/11" were cosmetic and didn't change the meaning of scenes that had angered several former Clinton administration officials, a spokesman for the former president said Monday.
Click Here Former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, now an ABC News consultant, denounced the movie Monday as an "egregious distortion." The docudrama also divided the two chairmen of the commission that looked into the attacks, who usually present a united front on terrorism issues. As for Clinton, he didn't bother watching the movie that angered so many people who once worked for him. "He made the choice that most Americans made," said Clinton Foundation spokesman Jay Carson. The movie was beaten soundly in the ratings by the regular-season debut of NBC's "Sunday Night Football," matching Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts against younger brother Eli of the New York Giants. ABC resisted calls to cancel the $40 million miniseries, airing commercial-free over two nights.
Several scenes were cut or changed from the first part of a movie ABC has stressed is a dramatization, not a documentary. "You can take out some of the more dramatic details," Carson said, "but it is still utterly and completely false." Clarke said the movie "is an egregious distortion that does a deep disservice both to history and to those in both the Clinton and Bush administrations who are depicted." ABC hired a production company and screenwriter who were unqualified for the job, he said.
FBI and military officers who would otherwise have prevented 9/11," he said. Thomas Kean, the Republican co-leader of the commission that investigated the Sept. Kean said Monday at the National Press Club that he thought it was a responsible project and that "I think they did a pretty good job." But the Democratic co-head of the 9/11 commission, former Rep. Lee Hamilton of Indiana, said he agreed with the Clinton administration critics, although he acknowledged not watching it Sunday. And to fudge it causes me a great deal of concern and suggests to me that news and entertainment are getting dangerously intertwined," he said.
In the original scene, an actor portraying Clarke shares a limousine ride with FBI agent John O'Neill and tells him: "The Republicans are going all-out for impeachment. I just don't see in that climate the president's going to take chances" and give the order to kill bin Laden. But in the film aired Sunday, Clarke says to O'Neill: "The president has assured me this ... Another scene in the critics' cut showed Clarke saying he didn't know what Clinton was going to do about bin Laden. "The Lewinsky thing is a noose around his neck," the actor portraying Clarke says.
Afghanistan , ready to attack, was substantially shortened from the original. Pictures of the waiting Afghanistan operatives are interspersed with those of officials in Washington, who had to approve the mission. The original version depicted national security adviser Samuel R Berger hanging up on CIA chief George Tenet as Tenet sought permission to attack bin Laden. The movie aired Sunday did not include Berger hanging up.
Madeleine Albright to alert the Pakistanis ahead of time about an airstrike against bin Laden, which Tenet said let the al-Qaida leader slip away. Clinton officials claim this, as well as the Berger-Tenet scene, didn't happen. The network de-emphasized the role of the commission that investigated the terrorist attacks in its film, omitting a note in the opening credits that the film is "based on the 9/11 commission report."
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