There was a wonderful TV movie titled Path to 9/11 which was based on the real events leading to the attack with actors portraying the players -- Harvey Keitel played John O'Neil very persuasively. But the movie did not put the Clinton administration in the best light and was especially harsh on Madeline Albright.
Unfortunately it was a little bit too much for the powers that be, and soon after it aired in 2006 it was locked up tighter than the vault at Fort Knox. The reason, according to the director of Blocking 'The Path to 9/11', was that ABC was afraid it would hurt another Clinton's political aspirations. See 9/11 Cowardice: Simple As ABC for details. Excerpt:
THE suits at Disney-owned ABC are too chicken to re-air or release on DVD their $40 million docudrama that accused Bill Clinton of squandering many chances to capture Osama bin Laden before the Twin Towers attacks.
That's the charge of John Ziegler, director of a new ABC-bashing documentary titled "Blocking 'The Path to 9/11.' " It focuses on why ABC delayed airing and severely re-edited its ambitious miniseries "The Path to 9/11" in 2006 after a furious Clinton and his cronies strong-armed the network.
Ziegler alleges that ABC's grand plan was to re-air the show, which starred Harvey Keitel and Donnie Wahlberg, every year around 9/11 but dumped the idea in 2007, fearing that it would hurt Hillary Clinton's presidential aspirations - and will now never air it again. He charges that Disney chief Robert Iger told shareholders that it was "simply a business decision" not to issue a DVD - an "odd declaration" because a home video would help recoup the company's $40 million investment.
Next year we'll get a very flattering movie about Obama's path to killing Osama.
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