Hillary! campaign preventing release of "The Path to 9/11"?

according to Cyrus Nowrasteh, one of the mini-series' many producers, YES.

(from a story today in the LA Times):
With no date for the release, questions are being raised about whether political pressure is behind its current status as a stalled or discarded DVD project. The reasons are murky, but the miniseries' writer, Cyrus Nowrasteh, believes it's crystal clear: Powerful forces are out to protect Bill Clinton's presidential legacy and shield Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) from any potential collateral damage in her bid for the White House.

Nowrasteh, also one of the miniseries' many producers, said he was told by a top executive at ABC Studios that "if Hillary weren't running for president, this wouldn't be a problem."

remember, this is such a touchy subject to the Clintons that before the film's release, there was a full-on freakout blitz put on by their supporters to pressure ABC/Disney to prevent it's showing, or at least make key changes to 'correct the historical record', as it may...(a.k.a., put them in a more favorible light):

(according to CNN) In the past week former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former national security adviser Samuel Berger, Clinton Foundation head Bruce Lindsey and Clinton aide Douglas Band have written letters to Disney CEO Robert Iger to express dismay with the film.

"It is unconscionable to mislead the American public about one of the most horrendous tragedies our country has ever known," Lindsey and Band wrote.

They called the project "a fictitious rewriting of history" and urged it be shelved until "egregious factual errors" could be fixed.

Berger objected to the reported portrayal of him refusing to authorize a strike targeting bin Laden when CIA operatives had the al Qaeda leader in their sights.

...Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have also joined in calling reported details of key scenes false and misleading.

In a letter to Iger, Reid said the reputation of ABC's parent company, the Walt Disney Corporation, would be "deeply damaged" if the film aired with those scenes intact.

ABC/Disney bowed to the pressure. disclaimers aired at several times during the showing of the film (distancing itself from the 9/11 Commission Report). It had several disputed scenes deleted.

on a further Clinton offensive, President Clinton showed up on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace in a one-on-one interview where he used intimidation tactics like giving Wallace the "crazy eyes", standing up and leaning over Wallace, and jabbing his finger into Wallace's knee to make the point that this was all just some crazy "right-wing conspiracy" to suggest that the Clinton Administration didn't do all it could to counter terrorism:



it's easy to understand the Clinton's sensitivity to this...for one thing, while Hillary! was grooming herself to run for the presidency, she made sure to get a seat on the Senate Armed Services committee, to make sure that, as a woman, she had some military credentials. then, she voted to go to war in Iraq...though she later said that she was misled by Bush, which led to her current position of getting the troops out...(this IS her current position, right? what day is it?). when she casted her vote FOR the war, she stated that it was "the most important vote she'd ever make", or something to that effect...a vote SO IMPORTANT that she didn't even bother to read the NIE (National Intelligence Estimate) report before the critical vote was cast, even though Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL), no dove, mind you, IMPLORED all of his colleagues to read it. (Graham voted NO.)

back to "the path to 9/11", in my opinion it doesn't show the Clinton Administration in a bad light at all. if anything, it shows how screwed up the federal gov't's bureaucracy is...the FBI hiding "evidence" from the CIA, the CIA hiding "intelligence" from the FBI, the state department tying the hands of investigators, ETC... NOBODY in their right mind should ever accuse Clinton of ignoring the threat. he didn't, and couldn't know what the full extent could possibly be. the government did what, at the time, it COULD do. in the movie, the Bush administration is at the helm during the biggest calamity. what's the problem?

the full miniseries can be seen at youtube. it's posted in 6-7 minute segments.