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Me#1You#10
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 Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 3:50 am Post subject: ABC Miniseries: "The Path to 9/11" |
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Well, this is news to me, and I'm gratified to hear of it...and on ABC no less! I can hear the cut n' runners yowling already...must be another Rovian plot to skew the elections...
| Quote: | The Path to 9/11
By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | August 16, 2006
Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Cyrus Nowrasteh, the writer/producer of the ABC 6-hour miniseries The Path to 9/11 which will air September 10th & 11th. He has worked in television and motion pictures for a number of years, won two PEN awards for Best Teleplay, and specializes in history and docudrama.
FP: Cyrus Nowrasteh, welcome to Frontpage interview.
Nowrasteh: Thank you for having me.
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FP: Share some of the details about the development of the project. How important would you say it is?
Nowrasteh: This miniseries is not just about the tragedy and events of 9/11, it dramatizes "how we got there" going back 8 years to the first attack on the WTC and dealing with the Al Qaeda strikes against U.S. embassies and forces in the 90s, the political lead-up, the hatching of the terrorist plots, etc. We see the heroes on the ground, like FBI agent John O'Neill and others, who after the '93 attack felt sure that the terrorists would strike the WTC again. It also dramatizes the frequent opportunities the Administration had in the 90s to stop Bin Laden in his tracks -- but lacked the will to do so. We also reveal the day-by-day lead-up of clues and opportunities in 2001 right up to the day of the 9/11 attacks. This is a terror thriller as well as a history lesson. I think people will be engaged and enlightened.
FP: When you refer to the failed effort to stop Bin Laden in the 1990s, this was obviously the time of Bill Clinton. How much do you think his administration made us vulnerable to 9/11?
Nowrasteh: The 9/11 report details the Clinton's administration's response -- or lack of response -- to Al Qaeda and how this emboldened Bin Laden to keep attacking American interests. The worst example is the response to the October, 2000 attack on the U.S.S. COLE in Yemen where 17 American sailors were killed. There simply was no response. Nothing.
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FP: What are some new ways that you perceive 9/11 after having written/produced the series than how you perceived it beforehand? Have your views changed in some ways?
Nowrasteh: I'm more determined in my belief that we must, unqualifiedly, win the war on terror. We must keep the terrorists on the run, looking over their shoulders -- kind of like what Bin Laden is doing right now.
FP: What are your thoughts on how the British just successfully blocked the plot to bomb trans-Atlantic jetliners in mid-air? What is the significance of this development?
Nowrasteh: As for blocking this plot, it's quite significant and the Brits should be applauded, as should our President. If you had said on 9/12/01 that there wouldn't be another major terrorist attack on American shores in the next 5 years you'd have been called nuts. Also, when you watch The Path to 9/11 you'll see that this recent plot is plagiarized from Ramzi Yousef and Khaled Sheikh Mohammed's "Bojinka" plot in 1995 that was foiled thanks to a Filipina police Captain. It's nice to see that technologically they haven't advanced much since '95.
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LewWaters
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| Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 5:41 am Post subject: |
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 After picking myself up off of the floor and closing my mouth, which was hanging wide open, I still have a hard time believing this is to be shown on ABC.
Long overdue for some major network to possibly lean towards the side of America, for a change.
This may the first time I watch anything on Network TV in years 
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| Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 6:24 am Post subject: |
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Ditto, Lew. I'm amazed!!
I had previously heard something about this mini series coming up. and just blew it off, thinking it would just be an ABC propaganda piece trotting out Richard Clarke to whine about how he couldn't convince President Bush and Condi Rice of the threat blah blah blah. It's unbelievable that ABC (the Adore Bill Clinton network) would actually slam Clinton for turning a blind eye and emboldening Bin Laden. Wow!!
Thanks, Me#1. After reading this interview, I can't wait to see it.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:47 am Post subject: |
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This will be the first reality tv show I will watch.
Take note of the sponsors and try to support them.
Reading the above is somewhat like seeing a ghost. |
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| Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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Hard to believe coming from ABC.
I wonder if Dan Rather is going to watch it. Or Clinton?
They need to maybe feature a display of this in the Clinton Library.
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Rush is talking about this film right now. A friend of his is the producer. Apparently at a preview screening there were some Clintonoids watching it and they were irate. Richard BenVeniste went postal on Michael Barone who really liked the movie.
Rush says he expects we will see a concerted effort by Clinton's people to discredit the film or put pressure ABC not to show it.
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| shawa wrote: |
"snip"
Rush says he expects we will see a concerted effort by Clinton's people to discredit the film or put pressure ABC not to show it. |
deja vu
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| Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:46 pm Post subject: ABC Miniseries "The path to 9/11" |
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"Put pressure on ABC not to show it."
Clinton's people will remember Kerry got away with it and figure they can to. Hopefully ABC won't bow to any pressure to edit or not show it.
Maybe this could be the first step in a MSM outlet finally seeing the truth. One can always hope.
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Rush is saying that apparently Bill Clinton himself is calling Robert Eiger(sp?) the head of Disney, to demand that the film be withdrawn or re-edited to cut out all the negative Clinton stuff!!
Must be desperate, usually he has his henchman do this.
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| shawa wrote: | Rush is saying that apparently Bill Clinton himself is calling Robert Eiger(sp?) the head of Disney, to demand that the film be withdrawn or re-edited to cut out all the negative Clinton stuff!!
Must be desperate, usually he has his henchman do this. |
By henchman, I assume you mean the Hildebeast...
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| Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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According to Rush, the pressure has been on for the last week or more and Iger has been hanging tough.
Hence, the personal appeal from Bill today.
Your right, Doc, the question is can he withstand the wrath/threat of the Hildebeast?
Edit: Robert Iger (not Eiger)
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I really can't see ABC pulling it. Reviews are out there all over the place.
This from TV Guide:
| Quote: | ROUSH REVIEW
Time Line of Terror
Dramatizing the epic tragedy of our time
Harvey Keitel, The Path to 9/11
Any time there's a new 9/11-based movie or TV project, the inevitable question arises: "Is it too soon?" The assumption, of course, is that the wounds are too fresh. It's too painful to watch.
Indeed, ABC's massively ambitious, impressively absorbing The Path to 9/11 (Sunday, Sept. 10, and Monday, Sept. 11, at 8 pm/ET) is the opposite of easy viewing. It is intensely serious, and seriously well done. Based on the 9/11 Commission Report findings, this two-part docudrama is chilling and maddeningly frustrating, as it depicts a world in which red tape drips with innocent blood.
"No one's taking terrorism seriously. We're not safe yet, and no one seems to care," says the film's central figure, FBI counterterrorism guru John O'Neill (the pugnacious Harvey Keitel), whose warnings about Al Qaeda went largely unheeded. In a bitter irony, O'Neill left the FBI in frustration and had just started work as the World Trade Center's security chief when the 9/11 attacks occurred.
Through O'Neill and a composite CIA agent named Kirk (Donnie Wahlberg), the movie pieces together a dense mosaic of intelligence lapses, bureaucratic snafus, failed manhunts and fatally missed connections. This is a classic "had we but known" (though we should have known) scenario.
With global scope and the cinematic tone of an espionage thriller, Path traces events from the first WTC bombing in 1993 to the horrific events of that Tuesday morning in 2001 (which comprise the gut-wrenching final half hour). No, it's never easy to watch. But it feels necessary. |
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| The irony of John O'Neill's name and credibility "whose warnings about Al Qaeda went largely unheeded" will not go unnoticed, at least in this forum. |
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| Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 8:13 pm Post subject: ABC "Path to 9/11" |
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It will be interesting to see if NY Times, Washington Post, or LA Times has any comment to make. Wonder if any MSM outlet will make any comment. If they do complain it makes Clinton look like he wants somthing (the truth) hidden.
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shawa
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OOHHH BOY!! No wonder the Clintonistas are flipping out!!!
| Quote: | Let me start by saying that "The Path to 9/11" is one of the best, most intelligent, most pro-American miniseries I've ever seen on TV, and conservatives should support it and promote it as vigorously as possible.
This is the first Hollywood production I’ve seen that honestly depicts how the Clinton administration repeatedly bungled the capture of Osama Bin Laden.
One astonishing sequence in "The Path to 9/11" shows the CIA and the Northern Alliance surrounding Bin Laden’s house in Afghanistan. They're on the verge of capturing Bin Laden, but they need final approval from the Clinton administration in order to go ahead. They phone Clinton, but he and his senior staff refuse to give authorization for the capture of Bin Laden, for fear of political fall-out if the mission should go wrong and civilians are harmed. National Security Adviser Sandy Berger in essence tells the team in Afghanistan that if they want to capture Bin Laden, they'll have to go ahead and do it on their own without any official authorization. That way, their necks will be on the line - and not his. The astonished CIA agent on the ground in Afghanistan repeatedly asks Berger if this is really what the administration wants. Berger refuses to answer, and then finally just hangs up on the agent. The CIA team and the Northern Alliance, just a few feet from capturing Bin Laden, have to abandon the entire mission. Bin Laden and Al Qaeda shortly thereafter bomb the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, killing over 225 men, women, and children, and wounding over 4000. The episode is a perfect example of Clinton-era irresponsibility and incompetence.
The miniseries also has a scene in which the CIA has crucial information identifying some of the 9/11 hijackers in advance of 9/11, but refuses to share the information with the FBI because of the “wall” put up by certain Democrat officials to prevent information sharing between government agencies. The CIA is depicted as sitting in a meeting with the FBI (with John O’Neil present), and showing the FBI surveillance photos of terrorism suspects - some of whom will later turn out to be the 9/11 hijackers. The CIA asks the FBI for help in identifying the men in the photos, but refuses to give the FBI any of the information they have on who the men are. John O’Neil protests that it’s impossible for the FBI to help the CIA identify the men if they won’t provide any information whatsoever on them. When O’Neil tells the FBI to keep the photos so they can at least work on them, the CIA becomes hostile to O’Neil and takes the photos back. Tragically, John O’Neil himself will later die in the 9/11 attacks, in part because agencies like the CIA refused to share crucial information like this. Scenes like these really challenge the prevailing liberal media and Hollywood mindset by showing that the Patriot Act's information-sharing and surveillance provisions are crucial to the safety of this country, and that political correctness and bureaucratic inefficiency are Islamic terrorism’s greatest friend...... (cont'd)Front Page Magazine |
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